Professor Bruce Chapman
Bruce Chapman is Professor of Economics at the Australian National University and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 2.5, ‘Issues in the economics of higher education financing’.
Bruce is Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He designed the first national system of income contingent student loans for tuition, introduced in Australia in 1989 and followed by many countries, including the UK. He was President of the Economics Society of Australia in 2007-2013.
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Past Events
Select recent publications
- ‘The International Revolution in Higher Education Financing: Concepts, research and policy’ (with Lorraine Dearden and Dung Doan), in C. Callender, W. Locke and S. Marginson (eds) (2019) (forthcoming), The Future of Higher Education, London: Bloomsbury.
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Higher Education Financing: Student Loans (with Dung Doan)
Economics of Education Review, Vol. 71: 1-7, 2019 - The US College Loans System: Reform Lessons from Australia and England (with Nicholas Barr, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski)
Economics of Education Review, Vol. 71: 32-49, 2019 - Repayment Burdens from Mortgage-style Student Loans and Towards an Income Contingent Loan for China (with Cai Yu and Qing Wan)
Economics of Education Review, Vol. 71: 95-109, 2019 - Modelling Higher Education Financing Reform for Ireland (with Aedin Doris)
Economics of Education Review, Vol. 71: 109-120, 2019 - ‘HECS: A Hybrid Model for Higher-Education Financing’ (2018) in M. Fabian and R. Breunig (eds.), Hybrid Public Policy Innovations: Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology, London, UK: Routledge: 119-133
- ‘The Political Economy of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme’ (with Timothy Hicks) in B, Cantwell, H. Coates, R. King (eds.) (2018), Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education, Edwards Elgar, Cheltenham: ch 14
- ‘The Politics of HECS’, in P. Texiera and J. Shin (eds.) (2018), Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Springer, Dordrecht
- ‘It Works in Practice, But Would It Work in Theory? Joseph Stiglitz’s Contribution to Our Understanding of Income Contingent Loans’, in Martin Guzman (ed.) (2018), Towards a Just Society: Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics, Columbia University Press, New York: ch 22
- Revisiting Revenue Contingent Loans for Drought Relief: Government as Risk Manager (with Linda Botterill and Simon Kelly)
Australian Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Vol. 61(3): 367-384, 2017 - Conceptual and Empirical Issues for Alternative Student Loan Designs: The Significance of Loan Repayment Burdens for the United States (with Lorraine Dearden)
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 671(1): 249-268, 2017