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Teixeira, Pedro
- Assistant Professor
- University of Porto
- Department of Economics
- Portugal
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| Pedro N. Teixeira is Assistant Professor
at the Department of Economics of the University
of Porto and Senior Researcher at CIPES - Portuguese
National Research Centre on Higher Education Policy
and CEMPRE - Research Centre on Macroeconomics and
Forecasting (Department of Economics - University
of Porto). He is also affiliated with IZA - the
International Network of Labor Economists and with
PROPHE - Program of Research on Private Higher Education.
He finished his PhD in Economics in 2003 (University
of Exeter) with a dissertation on the history of
human capital theory. Previously he earned a Masters
in the Economics of Higher Education at CHEPS (University
of Twente, The Netherlands) and a BA in Economics
from the University of Porto (Portugal). He has
published on various aspects of higher education
policy and in the history of economic thought.
Dr. Teixeira's main current research interests
are on the role of market forces in higher education
and on the historical development of human capital
theory and the way it influenced contemporary
economics.
Selected Publications
- Markets in Higher Education (edited with Alberto
Amaral, David Dill, and Ben Jongbloed), Kluwer,
Amsterdam (2004)
- Private Higher Education and Diversity:
An Exploratory Survey, (with Alberto Amaral),
Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 4,
2002
- The Economics of Education: an exploratory
portrait, History of Political Economy,
Annual Supplement, Duke University Press, 2001
- The Rise and Fall of Portuguese Private
Higher Education System, with Alberto Amaral,
Higher Education Policy (September 2000)
- Program Diversity in Higher Education:
An Economic Perspective, with David Dill,
Higher Education Policy (March 2000)
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| Private and Public Higher Education:
Competition or Complementarity?
The massification of higher education has led
to a growing share of higher education expenditures
in public budgets and to problems in the steering
and management of universities and colleges. This
has contributed to the growing role of markets
or market-like mechanisms have been playing in
higher education, with visible consequences both
for the regulation of HE systems, as well as for
the governance mechanisms of HE institutions.
One of the main dimensions for the introduction
of market mechanisms has been the growing privateness
of the higher education system. The idea was that
the private sector, armed with greater administrative
flexibility, and driven by financial incentives,
was more responsive to both niche and new markets.
There was a widespread conviction that, in times
of increasingly scarce resources, the market would
be more effective than state regulation in promoting
diversity of higher education systems, both in
terms of institutional types, of programs and
activities.
More recently some authors have questioned this
conviction. In previous research I analyzed the
impact that private higher education had in the
diversity of the system in a set of countries
where a late process of privatization played a
role in the massification process. This preliminary
analysis indicated that most private institutions
were more likely to either duplicate what public
institutions were doing or to expand low-cost
courses in areas with strong demand. In my research
I expect to explore empirically the impact of
the development of private higher education for
various dimensions of diversity. This work will
benefit from the efforts being done in the framework
of PROPHE, an international network of researchers
analyzing the role of private higher education
worldwide to which I am affiliated, in building
a database on private higher education worldwide.
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