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TAXES, USER CHARGES AND THE PUBLIC FINANCE OF COLLEGE
EDUCATION
A Dissertation
by
DOKOAN KIM
Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
August 2003
Major Subject: Economics
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TAXES, USER CHARGES AND THE PUBLIC FINANCE OF COLLEGE
EDUCATION
A Dissertation
by
DOKOAN KIM
Submitted to Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Approved as to style and content by:
Timothy J. Gronberg (Chair of Committee)
Hae-Shin Hwang (Member)
Arnold Vedlitz (Member)
Wayne Strayer (Member)
Leonardo Auernheimer (Head of Department)
August 2003
Major Subject: Economics
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ABSTRACT
Taxes, User Charges and the Public Finance of College Education.
(August 2003)
Dokoan Kim, B.A., Busan National University;
M.A., George Washington University
Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Timothy J. Gronberg
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the relative use of general state
subsidies (tax finance) and tuition (user charge finance) in the state financing of higher
education. State universities across U.S. states are very different among themselves
especially in terms of user charges, public finances, and qualities.
In this study, we consider only the State Regime in which the state government
decides the user charge, head tax, and expenditure, taking the minimum ability of
students as given and the state university simply is treated as a part of government. The
households who have a child decide to enroll their children at the university, taking head
tax, tuition, and quality of university as given.
The two first-order conditions of the state government’s optimization show the
redistribution condition and provision condition. For a given marginal household, we
show that under certain conditions, we have an interior solution of both head tax and
expenditure. In the household equilibrium, the marginal household is determined at the
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point where their perceived quality of university is equal to the actual quality of
university.
We solve the overall equilibrium, in which the given ability of a marginal household
for the state government is the same as the ability of the marginal household from the
households’ equilibrium. Since it is impossible to derive explicit derivation of
comparative statics, we compute the effects of income, wage differential between college
graduates and high school graduates, distribution of student ability on head tax,
expenditure, tuition, tuition/subsidy ratio, and quality of university.
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