Organizers: Julien Prat (CNRS, CREST, Ecole Polytechnique and CEPR); Robert Gary-Bobo (CREST ENSAE and CEPR); Tim Lee (Toulouse School of Economics); Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po, Paris, and University College, London).
Themes (summary): Financing of human capital in general; more specifically, the financing of higher education and universities. Respective roles and shares of public and private funding. Student loans and tuition fees. (Student debt, default and aid). Labor economics. Public Finance. Policy evaluation. Country-specific studies: the UK, Australia, the United States, Germany, etc. Theoretical, empirical and econometric contributions are all welcome with no exclusions.
Call for contributions:
Financing arrangements for higher education vary widely among OECD countries: while Anglo-Saxon countries mostly rely on private sources of finance (tuition fees and student loans), continental European countries favor a system based on public funding. Both approaches face significant challenges. In the United States, the increase in student debt is accompanied by a significant increase in bankruptcy rates on student loans. In Europe, states struggle to finance the needs of their public universities, which face greater competition from private institutions. These tensions suggest that both systems will have to mutate and possibly converge towards a more intermediate approach that combines private decisions and public intervention. The workshop will invite experts in the economics of education, labor economics, public finance, and applied econometrics, whose works address the ongoing mutations or are in one way or another related to higher education finance (returns to education, models of wages and careers, public finance, financial intermediation, …). It will favor an inter-disciplinary approach by bringing together empirical and theoretical minded researchers.
The workshop will take place over two days; June 7th and June 8th, 2018 and include 12 presentations, with an assigned discussant for each paper. Institut Louis Bachelier will be the local organizers, and presentations will take place in Sciences-Po Paris.
Submission Deadlines: Papers or extended abstracts should be submitted to CEPR (applying the usual procedure) and will be selected by the organizers. The deadline for the submission of a paper (or abstract) is December 18, 2017. Decisions will be notified by January 31, 2018.
For CEPR members, please submit your paper via the CEPR online system here. If you do not have a personal profile to use this area of the CEPR website as yet, you can create one here.
Authors who are not CEPR members can email their submission to the CEPR Events team [email protected] with the subject header ‘3570 – Financing Human Capital’.
Travel and accommodation reimbursements: The transportation and accommodation expenses of presenters and discussants of accepted papers can be reimbursed.
Sponsors and support: CREST (ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique), Toulouse School of Economics ; Sciences Po, Paris ; Institut Louis Bachelier; Labex Ecodec, Institut Montaigne; Institut de la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations pour la recherche ; CEPR, London.
