TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lergetporer, Philipp
AU  - Woessmann, Ludger
        TI  - Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition
        PY  - 2022/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14991
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14991
        AB  - We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N>18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases public support for tuition by 18 percentage points. The treatment turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the treatment effect similarly shows when framed as loan repayments, when answers carry political consequences, and in a survey of adolescents. Reduced fairness concerns and improved student situations act as strong mediators.
        KW  - income-contingent loans
KW  - higher education finance
KW  - tuition
KW  - voting
        ER  -