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Determinants of economic sustainability in higher education institutions
Chebeň, Juraj; Lančarič, Drahoslav; Munk, Michal; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 22 (2020) 54, pp. 462-479
entity depending on financial funds provided by students, research, strategic partners, effective and efficient financial … management. The conducted empirical survey deals with the link between the performance of HEI (number of students and the … on the 4678 students' questionnaires, the paper explores the perception of the quality of study and the capabilities of …
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Are they coming back? : the mobility of university students in Switzerland after graduation
Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all … the cantons have to bear the public costs for studying for their students irrespective of their study place. On average …, approximately half of the students who had left their home canton in order to study, return to their home canton, and about half of …
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How tuition fees affected student enrollment at higher education institutions : the aftermath of a German quasi-experiment
Minor, Ralf - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...
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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
ghost students. Thus, accounting for academic inactivity is essential to prevent the misreporting of dropout rates. Inactive … students are attracted to in-kind student benefits or use the university as a bridge to their professional or academic careers …. The social costs associated with such inactive students amount to 3.3% of public spending on higher education in NRW …
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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The graduation shift of German universities of applied sciences
Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2018
In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of interest for decades. While most studies only calculate quotes using student and graduate numbers for both phenomena, we propose to also consider the budget available to...
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities ; conference paper
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340965
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Student Loans in a Tiebout Model of Higher Education
Schwager, Robert - 2012
A model is presented where universities competitively supply education to mobile students. Students are subject to a …-related debt relief, however, the equilibrium quality of education is inefficiently low. This is because students reduce their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104244
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …
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