Evidence-based education policy needs comprehensive data. Education economists of the Verein für Socialpolitik call for … the implementation of a longitudinal education register in Germany to understand the complex interrelationships of … education systems. The education register should cover all levels of formal education and include data on student performance in …

on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public … of higher education institutions with and without tuition fees shows that the former institutions lost approximately …

Political regimes influence the contents of education and the criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study … the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree, as well as on several labor market … education system within the same birth cohort. We find that an additional year of socialist education substantially decreases …

The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular … education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population … on state spending for different areas of education. This research shows that providing respondents with the information …

. The social costs associated with such inactive students amount to 3.3% of public spending on higher education in NRW …