Die vorliegende Studie diskutiert Vorschläge zur Weiterentwicklung des BAföG (Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz) und damit des maßgeblichen Rahmens für den staatlichen Beitrag zur individuellen Studienfinanzierung in Deutschland. Dabei geht es um mehr als nur um eine Erhöhung der...

This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino migrants in Rome are used to examine remitting behavior...