کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
354389 1434832 2012 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Do tuition fees affect enrollment behavior? Evidence from a ‘natural experiment’ in Germany
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Do tuition fees affect enrollment behavior? Evidence from a ‘natural experiment’ in Germany
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper uses the introduction of tuition fees in seven of the sixteen German states in 2007 as a natural experiment to identify the effects of tuition prices on enrollment probabilities. Based on information on enrollment decisions of the entire population of high-school graduates between 2002 and 2008, I find a negative effect of tuition fees on enrollment behavior. The effect is larger than in existing studies for European countries, but of a similar magnitude as effects identified with U.S. data. A potential spill-over effect of the policy intervention to the comparison group is accounted for by using the estimation results to calibrate a structural model of the enrollment decision.


► First study that quantifies the effect of tuition fees on enrolment with a natural experiment.
► Paper finds a negative impact of tuition fees on enrolment rates.
► Paper uses a novel way to deal with a contaminated control group.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics of Education Review - Volume 31, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages 949–960
نویسندگان
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