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Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a … (baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower …
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true for college graduates, who tend to have more successful businesses. Access to childcare may also affect their labor …
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College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference … is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas … paper uses microdata from the American Community Survey to examine how the migration decisions of young college graduates …
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process and in the life course. Applying multinomial logit modelling on the unique database on Polish graduates we find that …
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This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax-induced migration on state revenues, excess burden, and fiscal...
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This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike …
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legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal … system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …
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We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...
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To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC...
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We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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