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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show...
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Keeping it in the family : student to degree match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
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Public funding and enrolment into higher education in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Wirz, Aniela Maria - 2002
In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel for European countries and apply instrumental variables techniques to find that public funding for schooling - regardless at what level - does increase college enrolment alike...
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
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Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? : Evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001
Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor);  … - 2006
(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment … on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant …
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When need meets merit: the effect of increasing merit requirements in need-based student aid
Agasisti, Tommaso; Bratti, Massimiliano; Minaya, Veronica - 2021
academic performance. This is done leveraging a reform in an Italian region that increased by 40% (i.e. from 25 to 35 out of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549196
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Equal opportunity through higher education : theory and evidence on privilege and ability
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2017
We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
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 conditions of the training voucher had an effect on actual training … activities of employees. Because the voucher was newly introduced, only one-fourth of the eligible employees knew the voucher …
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Do tuition fees affect the mobility of university applicants? : evidence from a natural experiment
Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition fees influence the mobility of university applicants. Based on administrative data of applicants for medical schools in Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the...
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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
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