Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Education Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-288

  Callan, Tim ^a   Smeeding, Tim ^b   Tsakloglou, Panos ^c  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Europe; In kind transfers; Inequality; Tertiary education

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; HIGHER EDUCATION; STUDENT;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; GREECE; IRELAND; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 51749112500     PISSN: 09645292     EISSN: 14695782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09645290802338144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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