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The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany
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In this paper, the authors used a natural experiment in the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education.Abstract:
This study utilizes a natural experiment in the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative school enrollment statistics as well as on representative individual-level data from three annual surveys of the German Mikrozensus. Estimates suggest that enrollment in Advanced Schools increased by about six percent after the fee abolition, where the results are sensitive to the specification choice. The positive enrollment effect of fee abolition for women exceeds that for men. A fifty percent reduction in fees is associated with an overall change in enrollment rates by 3 percent, where the elasticity of the demand for female education again exceeds that for males.read more
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Parental Background and the Transition to Secondary School: Evidence from Germany
Steve Pischke,Georg Graetz +1 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the strong impact of parental background on high school attendance and graduation in Germany is in part due to institutional features of the school system, and more generally due to the fact that parental background is associated with substantial cost differentials when entering high school and also when studying in high school.
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Special Issue on the Economics of Education – Policies and Empirical Evidence: Editorial
Stephen Machin,Patrick A. Puhani +1 more
TL;DR: There has been an upsurge of interest in the economics of education, particularly among empirical economists (see the up-to-date review in Machin and Vignoles, 2005).
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Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities
Edward Miguel,Michael Kremer +1 more
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Competition between Private and Public Schools, Vouchers, and Peer-Group Effects
Richard Romano,Dennis Epple +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical and computational model with tax-financed, tuition-free public schools and competitive, private schools is developed, where students differ by ability and income.
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College Entry by Blacks since 1970: The Role of College Costs, Family Background, and the Returns to Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data from a time series of cross sections of 18-19-year-old youths from 1973 through 1988 to test the role of family background, direct college costs, local economic conditions, and returns to college in driving these trends.