This paper estimates the percentage of students who do not take up their federal need-based student financial aid … although extensive student financial aid for needy students is available, it is crucial to know whether students assert their … claims for student aid at all. To investigate non-take-up, we set up a microsimulation model for the German Socio …

This paper estimates the percentage of students who do not take up their federal need-based student financial aid … although extensive student financial aid for needy students is available, it is crucial to know whether students assert their … claims for student aid at all. To investigate non-take-up, we set up a microsimulation model for the German Socio …

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …