%0 Journal Article
%T Universidade p¨²blica deve ser gr¨¢tis para quem pode pagar?
%A Azevedo
%A Eduardo M.
%A Salgado
%A Pablo
%J Revista Brasileira de Economia
%D 2012
%I Funda??o Get¨²lio Vargas
%R 10.1590/S0034-71402012000100005
%X the brazilian government offers over one million slots per year in free public universities. nevertheless, higher education in brazil is highly progressive. we analyze how the introduction of a tuition fee in public universities, levied upon those families that can afford it, alters the equilibrium in the higher education market. such a tariff provides incentives for rich families to seek private education and facilitates the access of poor students to public universities. a small tuition fee generates social gains of at least r$100.000 (around five times per capita gdp) for every additional poor student that receives a public education.
%K educa£¿ao superior
%K finan£¿as p¨²blicas.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-71402012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en