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The Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education
Human Capital Formation, Income Inequality, and Welfare
- 1st Edition - April 21, 2015
- Authors: Bernhard Eckwert, Itzhak Zilcha
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 1 9 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 1 9 1 - 9
The Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education explores advances in information technologies and in statistical and social sciences that have significa… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education explores advances in information technologies and in statistical and social sciences that have significantly improved the reliability of techniques for screening large populations. These advances are important for higher education worldwide because they affect many of the mechanisms commonly used for rationing the available supply of educational services. Using a single framework to study several independent questions, the authors provide a comprehensive theory in an empirically-driven field. Their answers to questions about funding structures for investments in higher education, students’ attitudes towards risk, and the availability of arrangements for sharing individual talent risks are important for understanding the theoretical underpinnings of information and uncertainty on human capital formation.
- Investigates conditions under which better screening leads to desirable outcomes such as higher human capital accumulation, less income inequality, and higher economic well-being.
- Questions how the role of screening relates to the funding structure for investments in higher education and to the availability of risk sharing arrangements for individual talent risks.
- Reveals government policies that are suited for controlling or counteracting detrimental side effects along the growth path.
Graduate students and researchers working in human capital, inequality, and economic growth, and more generally in macroeconomics, public economics, and labor economics.
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Uncertainty and Screening: Preliminary Notions
- Abstract
- 1.1 Information System
- 1.2 Real State and Signal Spaces
- 1.3 Informativeness Orderings
- Appendix to Chapter1
- Chapter 2: Screening Information in Equilibrium
- Abstract
- 2.1 Value of Information in Exchange Economies
- 2.2 Value of Information in Production Economies
- Appendix to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: Evidence on Higher Education and Economic Performance
- Abstract
- 3.1 Higher Education and Economic Development
- 3.2 Higher Education and Income Inequality
- 3.3 Income Inequality and Growth
- 3.4 Credit Constraints in Higher Education
- Chapter 4: Screening and Economic Growth
- Abstract
- 4.1 Better Screening in a Dynamic Framework
- 4.2 Description of the Framework
- 4.3 Screening in the Absence of Risk Sharing
- 4.4 Screening in the Presence of Risk Sharing
- 4.5 Concluding Remarks
- Appendix to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: Higher Education Financing
- Abstract
- 5.1 Basic Framework with Multiple Funding Schemes
- 5.2 Human Capital Accumulation
- 5.3 Welfare Comparison
- 5.4 The Effect of Better Screening
- Appendix to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: The Role of Government in Financing Higher Education
- Abstract
- 6.1 Subsidizing Tuition Versus Subsidizing Student Loans
- 6.2 Should Diverse Funding Schemes Coexist in Higher Education?
- Appendix to Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: Screening and Income Inequality
- Abstract
- 7.1 Inequality of Income Opportunities
- 7.2 Inequality of Income Distribution
- Appendix to Chapter 7
- Bibliography
- Index
- No. of pages: 190
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 21, 2015
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128031902
- eBook ISBN: 9780128031919
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Bernhard Eckwert
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eckwert is chair of the Economics Department at Bielefeld University. He has published on the theory of capital markets, the economics of information, and endogenous growth in journals such as European Economic Review, Economica, and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Affiliations and expertise
Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyIZ
Itzhak Zilcha
Itzhak Zilcha works on problems in human capital, growth, and income distribution; the economics of information; and the economics of insurance. He has published his research in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economica, and the Journal of Public Economic Theory, among others.
Affiliations and expertise
The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, IsraelRead The Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education on ScienceDirect