To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to
transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in …

In the political economy of education policy, interactions between policymakers and public
opinion can create discrepancies between political awareness and action. While a large …

We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education
strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the …

Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which
may be partly based on beliefs and awareness about the university earnings premium. To …

The last decades have seen rising enrolment numbers in higher education across all
countries and continents. Commonly, this goes hand in hand with increasing funding …

Do citizens' preferences about education policies differ across industrialized countries? To
gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct …

Among the significant inequalities within Britain's school system, the greatest lies in the
resources gap and the social segmentation between fee-paying and state schools …

The question whether higher education should be free or whether students should pay
tuition creates strong political tensions. Politicians in countries with long traditions of tuition …

Standard redistributive arguments suggest that the impact of household income on
preferences for public education spending should be negative, because wealthier families …

This paper provides a simple political economy model of hierarchical education to study the
endogenous determination of the public education budget and its allocation between …