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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities ; conference paper
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340965
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Designing efficient education and tax policies : conference paper
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2014 - Preliminary version
We study education and income tax policies in a model with endogenous selection into college. Our framework is strongly … policy reforms starting from the current system and (ii) derive conditions for optimal education and tax policies with … subsidies, and optimal education dependent taxes. We estimate the relevant parameters of the model for quantitative analysis. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487248
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Tuition fees and student achievement : evidence from a differential raise in fees ; conference paper
Fricke, Hans - 2014 - Preliminary version
This study analyses the effect of an increase in college costs on student achievement, particularly time-to-degree and performance. I exploit a unique policy at a Swiss university to identify and estimate the causal effect of an increase in tuition. Students faced an unexpected raise in tuition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487709
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The economics of density : evidence from the Berlin Wall ; conference paper
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel; … - 2013
This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340607
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The persistent effects of regional policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet ; conference paper
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2014 - Preliminary version
In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the contemporaneous and persistent effects of regional policy. We apply a quasi-experimental identification strategy exploiting the fact that municipalities in the West-German Zonenrandgebiet (ZRG) were eligible for substantial regional transfers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487730
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Railroads and growth in Prussia : conference paper
Hornung, Erik - 2014
We study the effect of railroad access on urban population growth. Using GIS techniques, we match triennial population data for roughly 1,000 cities in nineteenth-century Prussia to georeferenced maps of the German railroad network. We find positive short- and long-term effects of having a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489837
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Evaluating heterogeneous effects of housing-sector-specific macroprudential policy tools on Belgian house price growth
Coulier, Lara; De Schryder, Selien - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether housing-related macroprudential policy has heterogeneous effects on house price growth in local housing markets. More specifically, we employ an extensive dataset of Belgian municipalities containing a multitude of drivers of local house price dynamics and examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443724
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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children ; conference paper
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2014
The paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491090
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The effect of early childhood language training programs on the contemporary formation of grammar skills : conference paper
Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2014 - Preliminary
While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten …-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of kindergarten education, I am using the German National Educational Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483845
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Externalities and subsidization of higher education : conference paper
Winter, Stefan; Pfitztner, Alexander - 2013
Higher education is subsidized worldwide, although with pronounced differences in levels of subsidization. While public … from poorer family backgrounds to join universities. The other argument holds that higher education is accompanied by … positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338372