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. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …
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Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment …
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We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who …
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administrative student and labor market data. Our estimates show that the average regional expansion in first-year BA students …
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environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower participation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … show consistently across all countries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due to their …
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discontinuous function of parental income, the effect of BAfoeG on students' enrollment decisions can be identified separately from …
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that studying abroad has a stronger effect for credit constrained students. Furthermore, we suggest mechanisms through …
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Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital...
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Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the …
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Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school graduates and apply a difference-in-differences approach to...
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