Endowment spending rates, intergenerational equity and the sources of capital gains |
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Authors: | Geoffrey Woglom |
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Institution: | Department of Economics, Amherst College, P.O. Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002-5000, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper analyzes how James Tobin’s widely cited concept of “intergenerational equity” for university endowments relates to the economic concepts of intertemporal substitutability and risk aversion. I show that Tobin’s concept of intergenerational equity is a very special case of intertemporal substitutability; a special case that implies very low tolerance for risk. Using the more general case, I show that the observed reduction in university spending rates during the 1990s can be viewed as a reasonable response to a period of non-recurring capital gains. |
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Keywords: | Educational finance Educational economics |
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