This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college degree under a variety of different settings (e.g. major, student loan debt, individual ability). Using a lifecycle simulation approach, I account for ability/selection bias and the substantial...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes...

Im Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern finden sich zwei staatliche (Voll-)Universitäten, drei staatliche Fachhochschulen und eine staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Im Vergleich zu den Einnahmen des Landes steigen die Finanzmittel der Hochschulen überproportional. Im Rahmen des...

Despite measures on the European level to increase the compatibility between the HE sectors of the member states, the recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency term according to the two management levels each...

Hochschulen haben eine große Bedeutung für die Attraktivität und Entwicklung einer Region. Für die Länder, in deren Verantwortungsbereich Hochschulsteuerung und Hochschulfinanzierung liegen, bestehen daher große Anreize, ein reichhaltiges Hochschulangebot bereitzustellen. Hierdurch sollen...

Vernetzt mit Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, eingebettet in einen internationalen Aus-tausch und flexibel auf die unterschiedlichen Interessen von Studierenden mit und ohne Berufserfahrung reagierend - so sollten die Hochschulen aufgestellt sein, um den Megatrends Digitalisierung,...

This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed-methods approach that combines survey data with qualitative in-depth interviews to explore schooling decisions. Some private and religious schools exist, but we find that in most...

Financial aid has been shown to affect student outcomes from enrollment to graduation. However, effects on graduation can be driven either by marginal students induced to enroll by financial aid, or by inframarginal students who would have enrolled anyway but received additional financial aid....