Because education generates a positive externality, ______

A. everyone who wants a college education should get one
B. graduates' marginal benefit exceeds the society's value of the educa-tion
C. the quantity of education undertaken will achieve the social interest if it is free
D. subsidies to colleges or vouchers to students are means of achieving the efficient number of graduates


D Figures 9.9 and 9.10 show how subsidies and vouchers in-crease the number of students to be equal to the efficient number.

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