ESRC postdoctoral fellowship for Economics
Published 1 May 2009
Dr Guiseppe Migali of the Department of Economics has been awarded a £173,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the ESRC to study ‘Theoretical and econometric evaluation of secondary and higher education in the UK, funding, financing and educational outcomes’.
The proposed research aims to contribute directly to the policy debate concerned with the financing of Higher Education. In particular the research will focus on: the contributions that taxpayers, parents and students make towards its costs, the extent to which these contributions should be loans or grants, and how such payments might be designed. For example, one could contrast financing systems based on mortgage loans with one based on income-contingent loans.
The aim is to contribute to this area of research in a number of important ways by considering grants versus loans versus graduate tax, merit-based support versus universal support, means tested versus not, and tax deductibility versus not.
