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Home or Away? Gender Differences in the Effects of an Expansion of Tertiary Education Supply
Rizzica, Lucia - 2013
The aim of this paper is to estimate the effects of the expansion of tertiary education supply on the educational choices of young Italian high school graduates. A quasi-experimental setting given by the reform of the tertiary education system implemented in 2001 is exploited. The reform was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155337
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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dwenger, Nadja - 2009
Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a … (baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155573
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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011
Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a … (baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201983
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From subsidies to loans: the effects of a national student finance reform on the choices of secondary school students
Gendre, Alexandra de; Kabátek, Jan - 2021
higher education students by low-interest loans. We show that this reform had a large impact on education choices of … secondary school students, lowering their enrolments in college-preparing tracks and increasing the share of students … that secondary school students respond to the modes of higher education financing well ahead of their graduation, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609203
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Student aid and the distribution of educational attainment
Jones, Maggie - 2016
-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can … number of university degrees. For students living in remote communities that face above average costs to graduating high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572408
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The graduation shift of German universities of applied sciences
Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2018
In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of interest for decades. While most studies only calculate quotes using student and graduate numbers for both phenomena, we propose to also consider the budget available to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918371
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Rising Tuition and Enrollment in Public Higher Education
Hemelt, Steven W.; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2021
In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324788
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491864
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295596
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295805