effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …

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 …

labour market in terms of the incentives that economic agents face. To fulfil its new role the following three reform …