in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … financial barriers to university participation, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. …

volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students’ efforts to raise lifetime income and universities’ activities to improve teaching quality are …

a greater sorting of students and an increase in the returns to quality. These results somehow justify the recent …

explore how a 25 percent increase in future wages for PSE students will affect current schooling decisions. This leads to an …

studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the effects on students' budgets. To identify causal effects, we … exploited the natural experiment established by the introduction of fees. They did not affect students' spending behavior … students increased their budgets only marginally; fees did not increase social inequality. …

(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …