Dem vorliegenden Beitrag liegt die Forschungsfrage zugrunde, ob Studienberechtigte in Deutschland durch Studiengebühren von einem Studium abgehalten werden. Diese Fragestellung ist aus mindestens zwei Aspekten relevant: Erstens gibt es bislang nur wenige Arbeiten, die, bezogen auf die...

We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...

To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...