received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment …Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant …

-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled part-time as compared to for students who initially … compared with at-risk part-time students. -- college enrollment ; college dropout ; part-time enrollment …

We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher … students had to repay the full loan until 1990. Thereafter, 50 percent of the student aid has been offered as a non … enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education …