not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all … the cantons have to bear the public costs for studying for their students irrespective of their study place. On average …, approximately half of the students who had left their home canton in order to study, return to their home canton, and about half of …

ghost students. Thus, accounting for academic inactivity is essential to prevent the misreporting of dropout rates. Inactive … students are attracted to in-kind student benefits or use the university as a bridge to their professional or academic careers …. The social costs associated with such inactive students amount to 3.3% of public spending on higher education in NRW …

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. …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

Since the spring of 2021, nearly 700 colleges and universities in the U.S. have mandated that their students become …

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher … students who can be expected to work abroad after graduation with high probability. This paper analyzes whether and how student …, this points into the direction that the larger the share of foreign students among all students in a country, the more a …

Working has become commonplace among college students; however, this activity can have unexpected financial … consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents … for each marginal dollar of income. This tax creates an incentive for college students to reduce income, though abstruse …