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II. Higher Education, Higher Education Policy (Higher Education Law, Higher Education Organisation, Personnel Structure, Student Body, Educational Assistance, Higher Education Statistics)
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Author BURGARD, Claudia (GRAVE, Barbara)
Title Does it pay off to incentivize universities? : performance funding in the German higher education system / Claudia Burgard and Barbara S. Grave
Publisher Bochum : RUB, Dep. of Economics, 2013
Collation 23 S.
Publication year 2013
Series (Ruhr economic papers ; 457)
ISBN 978-3-86788-516-4
Source/Footnote Volltext: www.rwi-essen.de/media/content/pages/publikationen/ruhr-economic-papers/REP_13_457.pdf
Inventory number 79049
Keywords Finanzierung der Hochschulen : allgemein ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein ; Hochschulreform : allgemein
Abstract This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of performance-related funding in the German university sector. Starting in the 1990‘s, the federal states of Germany introduced incentive-based funding systems in order to increase universities‘ performance and efficiency. We estimate the effects of this reform on four common outcome indicators of the funding models: The number of students and graduates, which are supposed to measure teaching performance, and the number of PhD graduates and the amount of third-party funds, which quantify research output. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, our results suggest that for increasing the outcomes in teaching, a weak incentive is sufficient while the research outputs are only affected if the incentive is strong enough. We further identify different responses by university types, which shows that the results are mainly driven by technical colleges. According to our findings, it is crucial to design the funding models carefully to provide the “right” incentives and hence to achieve the underlying goal of the reform.(HRK / Abstract übernommen)
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