We assume that students can acquire a wage premium, thanks to studies, and form a rational expectation of their future … earnings, which depends on personal ability. Students receive a private, noisy signal of their ability, and universities can … of test scores. Students optimally self-select as a result of pricing only. If capital markets are perfect but …

targeted forgiveness of student loans on student college enrollment and completion or dropout decisions. We focus on students … subsidy with partial forgiveness of student debt conditional on dropping out has a doubly efficient effect of risk mitigation …, moreover, superior in terms of mitigating the “bad debt” held by students, that unrecouped by returns to college. Budget …

application decisions for all students, but it impacted students differently based on gender and academic performance. High …-performing male students showed the strongest reaction, shifting their first-ranked application from non-selective long …-term universities to selective long-term programs. On average, female students, regardless of performance, did not show a systematic …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher … students who can be expected to work abroad after graduation with high probability. This paper analyzes whether and how student …, this points into the direction that the larger the share of foreign students among all students in a country, the more a …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

State governments provide grants to students to subsidize college attendance. In response, colleges can adjust their … tuition, aid policies, and admission standards, affecting equilibrium enrollment and pass-through of aid to students. To … strategic competition between individual colleges. Simulations demonstrate that college responses are meaningful: when students …

Student loans, even income-contingent ones, are not optimal. Potential university students with the appropriate … on the choice of university degree, but students with a natural aptitude for studies that do not hold the prospect of a …

marginal fiscal recovery rate, i.e. the ratio of the change in total net fiscal revenues and the change in total subsidy costs … of the net fiscal revenue gain and the subsidy cost of a degree in tertiary education. Second, we use the sufficient …. This average hides substantial heterogeneity between countries. In six countries (Australia, Israel, the Netherlands …