Higher education funding reforms in England: The distributional effects and the shifting balance of costs

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 526, 2008, Pages

  Dearden, Lorraine ^a   Fitzsimons, Emla ^a   Goodman, Alissa ^a   Kaplan, Greg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS; EDUCATION REFORM; HIGHER EDUCATION; PRIVATE SECTOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAX SYSTEM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38349107345     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02118.x     Document Type: Article

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