This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has made a major impact on higher education and affected students’ livelihoods and attainment of … education. To help students during these challenging times the Federal CARES Act was established to provide financial relief and … education by assessing the current factors associated with the national funding model. Additionally, three additional models …

of Education to issue temporary waivers (which expire in October of 2022) which essentially provide a path to forgiveness …

-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …

By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …

the interventions on college enrollment, graduation, and earnings in adulthood. I show that the career education …