This paper estimates the impact of school quality on the transition to higher education examination (abbreviated as YGS … same cohort, we find that student quality explains the transition to higher education examination outcomes to a large …

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate education within otherwise …

- need not delay reforms in higher education. In fact, the global recession is an opportune time for higher education in the … efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education … programs of study; (iii) community-based vocational and technical higher education that provides jobs in a rapidly changing …

We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by … the expansion of university programs. -- human capital ; spatial distribution ; access to tertiary education …