This paper studies the determinants of academic success using a unique administrative data set of a German university. We show that high school grades are strongly associated with both graduation probabilities and final grades, whereas variables measuring social origin or income have only a...

Das Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und seine Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbände sehen sich wegen der demographischen Entwicklung und wegen des Rückgangs der Mittel aus dem Solidarpakt II bedeutsamen finanzpolitischen Herausforderungen gegenüber. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist zu begrüßen, dass der...

This paper studies the determinants of academic success using a unique administrative data set of a German university. We show that high school grades are strongly associated with both graduation probabilities and final grades, whereas variables measuring social origin or income have only a...

Das Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und seine Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbände sehen sich wegen der demographischen Entwicklung und wegen des Rückgangs der Mittel aus dem Solidarpakt II bedeutsamen finanzpolitischen Herausforderungen gegenüber. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist zu begrüßen, dass der...

This paper studies the determinants of academic success using a unique administrative data set of a German university. We show that high school grades are strongly associated with both graduation probabilities and final grades, whereas variables measuring social origin or income have only a...

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,...