education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported … enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education …

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid …

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of … opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence … investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …

received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment … on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant …

fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total …

-adjusted returns to an academic education increase the probability of university enrollment. Second, high-school graduates are …

Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition …

This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age … cohorts. It uses the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey 2010, which provides both a number of health outcomes and … displacement on child health, namely a linear regression model and propensity score matching. In order to capture different …