shows that students may not be informative of the role of social preferences in the broader population. We find that the … representative participants differ fundamentally from students both in their level of selfishness and in the relative importance … differences among the students, males and females in the representative group differ fundamentally in their moral motivation …

The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students …, we find a significant positive correlation between the share of international students and the private funding share for …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students …

transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …

In the education literature, it is generally acknowledged that both credit and insurance for students are rationed. In … students who have private information on their ability to learn and can decide to default on debt. We show that the combination … student risk aversion is high, high ability students are separated and student loan contracts involve a limited amount of …

first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …