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 … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment …

We report results from a Cournot triopoly experiment with different subject pools: German students, Malaysian students …, and Malaysian managers. While German students play Nash, we reject the hypothesis that both Malaysian students and … students. Finally, the affect of gender is opposite for German and Malaysian subjects. …

Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a … (baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …