rate of market establishment breaks upward in 1386 and that this break is greatest where the distance to a university … shrank most. There is no differential pre-1386 trend associated with the reduction in distance to a university, and there is … no break in trend in 1386 where university proximity did not change. These results are robust to estimating a variety of …

This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students for choosing STEM fields in university. We … combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality level information from the census as well as … for differences in costs (relative distance to the next technical university) and earnings across majors as well as for …

differ by class size. We use administrative records of a German public university, covering all programs and courses between …

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …

between universities and governments. Student mobility generates a university competition effect which induces them to … reduce tax revenues at the expense of research. -- student mobility ; worker mobility ; university competition ; government …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … spatial variable, which measures the distance between a fee-imposing university and the nearest fee-free alternative. Secondly …