Public Universities, Tuition and Competition - A Tiebout Model
26 Pages Posted: 22 Oct 2007 Last revised: 26 Aug 2008
Date Written: 2007
Abstract
A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues, of running the university. The quality of education and the assignment of students to universities in an efficient allocation are characterised. It is shown that decentralised decisions result in efficient choices if states are allowed to choose tuition levels freely. If tuition is capped, inefficiently low qualities are likely to arise.
Keywords: higher education, migration, fiscal externality, club good, tuition
JEL Classification: H75, I28, H77
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