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Student loans : towards a new public/private mix

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This paper discusses how to construct student loans to ensure that, for the most part, they count as private spending. Though the specifics relate to the finance of higher education, the issue has much wider ramifications for flexible combinations of public and private activity, for example in financing public transport, paying for infrastructure, and the like. The opening section explains the issue, section 2 justifies the specific loan proposal and section 3 discusses ways of ensuring that the scheme is classified as private.

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  • Barr, Nicholas, 1997. "Student loans : towards a new public/private mix," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 282, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. Nicholas Barr & Iain Crawford, 1998. "Funding Higher Education in an Age of Expansion," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(1), pages 45-70.
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    3. Barr, Nicholas, 1998. "Higher education in Australia and Britain : what lessons?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 285, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook

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