The Higher Education White Paper: The Good, the Bad, the Unspeakable - and the Next White Paper

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 483-508

  Barr, Nicholas ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit constraints; Debt aversion; Higher education finance; Imperfect information; Income contingent repayments; Interest subsidies; Prior attainment constraint; Student loans; Widening participation

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; DEBT; EDUCATION REFORM; INTEREST RATE; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SOCIAL POLICY; STUDENT;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84866161989     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2012.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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