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Article Dans Une Revue Economic Analysis Année : 2011

Bridging the Learning Gap in the Market for Higher Education: E-learning and Public Subsidies

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This article aims at analyzing the adoption patterns which apply on the market for higher education when two types of learning organizations - namely, traditional learning and e-learning organizations - provide educational programs. We focus on the impact of public subsidies to e-learning providers in order to evaluate the conditions under which the learning gap is bridged. A welfare analysis is introduced to estimate the relevance of such 'pro e-learning' public policies. Our first results show that public subsidies enable the e-learning organization to provide quality-based and pricing strategies that tend to be similar to those of the brick'n mortar organization. Besides, we find that such short-term policies positively impact on the global level of quality which is provided by both providers. Nevertheless, our welfare analysis underlines contrasted results about the relevance of such short-term public policies.
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halshs-00937180 , version 1 (28-01-2014)

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Adel Ben Youssef, Thomas Le Texier, Ludovic Ragni. Bridging the Learning Gap in the Market for Higher Education: E-learning and Public Subsidies. Economic Analysis, 2011, 3-4, pp.1-11. ⟨halshs-00937180⟩
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