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Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...
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With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the past number of years. However, no study has been...
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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...
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Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at …
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German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to … universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to … financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their …
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We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...
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In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data … from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 … more than 0.25 percent, with larger effects at Research I universities. We find no evidence that especially large increases …
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The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling … twentieth century, the introduction of mass secondary school education and the expansion of the number of universities widened …
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We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...
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This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are tested on a sample of innovative...
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