We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....

We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....

This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...

Die Studie untersucht die Verteilungswirkungen der Hochschulfinanzierung im Längsschnitt. Sie stellt Leistungen, die Akademiker in Form von Hochschulbildung erhalten, den hochschulbezogenen (Steuer-)Lasten der Akademiker gegenüber und ermittelt auf dieser Grundlage Studienentgelte, die einen...