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The Effect of University Openings on Local Human Capital Formation: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from Germany

Siegler, Benedikt - 2012

Between 1960 and 1979, 93 new universities opened in Germany. Using this large tertiary education expansion, I estimate …

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Public Universities, Tuition and Competition: A Tiebout Model

Schwager, Robert - 2007

A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students …. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile … student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues, of running the university. The quality of education and the …

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No Place Like Home? Graduate Migration in Germany

Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2015

We empirically analyze sub-national migration of graduates in Germany and its determinants. Based on a longitudinal, representative survey-based dataset of students who graduated in the academic year 2004/2005, we observe the transition to the labor market and previous and subsequent migration...

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Intergovernmental (dis)incentives, free-riding, teacher salaries and teacher pensions

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2015

In this paper, I document evidence that intergovernmental incentives inherent in public sector defined benefit pension systems distort the amount and timing of income for public school teachers. This intergovernmental incentive stems from the fact that, in many states, local school districts are...

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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2013

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock" in the private sector. I use the introduction of...

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Much Ado about Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2013

By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...

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Der Einfluss der Studiengebühren auf die Zahl der Studienanfänger an deutschen Hochschulen

Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Beyer, Carolin; Mattheis, Julia - 2014

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht entschied im Jahr 2005, dass es jedem Bundesland frei stehe, zu entscheiden, ob es Studiengebühren erheben möchte. Infolge dessen führten zunächst Nordrhein-Westfalen und Niedersachsen ab dem Wintersemester 2006/2007 Studiengebühren ein. Ein Jahr später folgten...

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The Compositional Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluation on Workforce Quality

Cullen, Julie Berry; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric - 2016

Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is …

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Do mergers of large local governments reduce expenditures? Evidence from Germany using the synthetic control method

Roesel, Felix - 2016

expenditures in main expenditurecategories such as social care, education or administration. There seems to be no scaleeffects in …

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The Impact of the Bologna Reform on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Regional Supplyof Bachelor Programs in Germany

Enzi, Bernhard; Siegler, Benedikt - 2016

How did the introduction of the Bachelor-degree system affect students in Germany? Combining rich data on university students with administrative data on universities' study programs, we exploit variation in the timing of Bachelor-degree implementation across departments. To account for...

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