higher education students by low-interest loans. We show that this reform had a large impact on education choices of … secondary school students, lowering their enrolments in college-preparing tracks and increasing the share of students … that secondary school students respond to the modes of higher education financing well ahead of their graduation, and that …

higher education students by low-interest loans. We show that this reform had a large impact on education choices of … secondary school students, lowering their enrolments in college-preparing tracks and increasing the share of students … that secondary school students respond to the modes of higher education financing well ahead of their graduation, and that …

enrollment among students with low parental income and improve life-cycle earnings outcomes. This paper calculates the elasticity … there is a sharp increase in aggregate educational attainment as a result of the subsidy. However, I also find that there is … an overall decrease in mean life-cycle earnings due to students downgrading from 4-year colleges to 2-year colleges …

high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We …

high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We …

I evaluate a financial aid policy which automatically granted 1,800 euros annually to low-income students scoring in … the top 5% of high school students and enrolling in higher education. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that …. These null results do not appear to be driven by (i) students being unaware of this aid, (ii) crowding out of parents …

Every year, governments allocate considerable amounts of resources to support students' access and performance in … higher education. Grants and loans are directed to those students for whom college would seem unaffordable otherwise. These … programs are justified on the grounds of how they help students access, persist and graduate from higher education. However …

If information asymmetries prevent talented students of non-academic backgrounds from applying for merit-based aid, the … whether information asymmetries exist and decrease students’ likelihood to apply for merit-based scholarships. In a randomized … field experiment, I expose more than 5,000 German students either to general information on federally funded scholarships or …

Students of poor families invest much less than rich families in college education. To assess the role of financing … constraints and subsidy schemes in explaining this gap, I structurally estimate an IO/finance model of college choice in the … students. I propose a novel identification strategy that relies on bunching at federal Stafford loan limits and differences …

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. …