Does distance matter? Tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities.

Autor/inn/en	Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, Berthold U.
Institution	CESifo GmbH
Titel	Does distance matter? Tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Macht die Entfernung einen Unterschied? Studiengebühren und Einschreibung von Studienanfängern an deutschen öffentlichen Universitäten.
Quelle	München (2013), 36 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 4258
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Binnenwanderung; Regionale Mobilität; Bundesland; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Universität; Studiengebühren; Studienberechtigter; Studienortwahl; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Regionaler Vergleich; Studienanfänger
Abstract	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. Firstly, we take into account the location of universities and include a spatial variable, which measures the distance between a fee-imposing university and the nearest fee-free alternative. Secondly, we use panel data that allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity between universities. Our results suggest that enrollment at universities that impose a tuition fee and that are located close to fee-free universities experience a decrease in enrollment that is twice as large as the decrease at universities that are further away from feefree universities. We also find gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away from fee-free alternatives are significantly less affected by the introduction of tuition fees than are enrollment numbers of male students. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/4