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Tuition fees and academic (in)activity in higher education: How did students adjust to the abolition of tuition fees in Germany?
Berens, Johannes; Henao, Leandro; Schneider, Kerstin - 2024
Five years after introducing tuition fees, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) abolished them in March 2011. Using student-level panel data, we assess the effects of this reform on academic activity and performance in two universities in NRW: a state university and a private...
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Effects of access to universities on education and migration decisions
Markus, Philipp - 2023
The paper examines the effect of access to universities on education and migration decisions of young adults. So far, studies on the causal effect of education on mobility have mainly focused on labor market mobility of high-skilled workers after finishing their educational career, due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000450
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The effect of supplemental instruction on academic performance: An encouragement design experiment
Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Rogan, Sally; Siminski, Peter - 2016
While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the 'gold standard' for impact evaluation, they face numerous practical barriers to implementation. In some circumstances, a randomized-encouragement design (RED) is a viable alternative, but applications are surprisingly rare. We discuss the...
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Effects of the Bologna Reform on educational outcomes: Micro evidence from Germany
Hahm, Sabrina; Kluve, Jochen - 2016
The Bologna Process aimed at harmonizing European higher education systems and at increasing their efficiency. This paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). We estimate treatment effects on the probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541432
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More teachers, smarter students? Potential side effects of the German educational expansion
Westphal, Matthias - 2017
In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus encouraged individuals with different teaching abilities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773263
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The gender gap in STEM: (Female) teenagers' ICT skills and subsequent career paths
Hertweck, Friederike; Lehner, Judith - 2023
Skills shortage in the fields of Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) poses a significant … proficiency in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and their career preferences in the STEM domain. Based on … representative data for German teenagers, our study shows that female adolescents are less likely to choose a career in STEM unless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325934
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The Effect of Tuition Fees on Student Enrollment and Location Choice – Interregional Migration, Border Effects and Gender Differences
Alecke, Björn; Burgard, Claudia; Mitze, Timo - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of tuition fees on the university enrollment and location decision of high school graduates in Germany. After a Federal Constitutional Court decision in 2005, 7 out of 16 German federal states introduced tuition fees for higher education. In the empirical...
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Does it Pay Off to Incentivize Universities? – Performance Funding in the German Higher Education System
Burgard, Claudia; Grave, Barbara S. - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of performance-related funding in the German university sector. Starting in the 1990‘s, the federal states of Germany introduced incentive-based funding systems in order to increase universities‘ performance and efficiency. We estimate the...
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Cooperation between higher education institutions and companies from a spatial perspective: An empirical analysis of Germany using Bayesian logistic multilevel models
Warnecke, Christian; Weller, Daniel - 2017
This research paper aims at highlighting factors which influence the spatial focus of interactions between higher education institutions (HEIs) and the economic system in Germany. In the pursuit of this goal, our research work employs a Bayesian statistical analysis of empirical data gathered...
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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their children lowers a child's probability of holding a...
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