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The political economics of higher education finance for mobile individuals : conference paper
Borck, Rainald; Übelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - 2013
. Households dffer in their financial endowment and their children's ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to … rates, but the larger are the numbers of exchange students. …
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities ; conference paper
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
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. …
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Student assessment and grade retention : evidence from a natural experiment ; conference paper
Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - 2014
In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is … recommendations cause less grade retentions. The effect is mainly driven by students from better situated districts. This finding may …
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college? : conference paper
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2014 - Preliminary draft (v5feb2014)
Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college … suggests a role for policies that increase returns from studying nursing to attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488507
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The economics of school choice
Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.) - 2003
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Designing efficient education and tax policies : conference paper
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2014 - Preliminary version
We study education and income tax policies in a model with endogenous selection into college. Our framework is strongly influenced by the empirical college literature and incorporates heterogenous returns and tastes for college, earnings risk (implying uncertain returns to college) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487248
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Supply shocks, incentives and national wealth
Brunner, Karl (contributor); Meltzer, Allan H. (contributor) - 1981
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Proceedings of the Conference on Strategic Alliances in Transitional Economies
Koch, Cynthia (ed.) - 1997
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Persistent and transitory shocks, learning, and investment dynamics : paper presented at the HWWA Workshop, August 26-27, 1999, on "Uncertainty and Factor Demands", organized by Mi...
Moore, Bartholomew John; Schaller, Huntley; Funke, Michael - HWWA Workshop on Uncertainty and Factor Demands <1999, …; … - 1999
This paper introduces a new approach to understanding investment. The distinctive feature of our approach is that shocks to the economic fundamentals have both persistent and transitory components, and that firms must disentangle the persistent from the transitory shocks. The model generates...
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