Sommeren 1976 var jeg ude for en episode, som skulle få afgørende betydning for mit professionelle liv. Jeg læste på tredje år ved Aarhus Universitet og var ansat som studentermedhjælp hos Ribe amtskommune. Mit arbejde var at gennemføre en undersøgelse af social-, undervisnings- og...

In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel for European countries and apply instrumental variables techniques to find that public funding for schooling; regardless at what level; does increase college enrolment alike...

Does student financial aid increase college attendance, or simply subsidize costs for infra-marginal students? Settling the question empirically is a challenge, because aid is correlated with many characteristics that influence schooling decisions. A shift in financial aid policy that affects...

Recent policy proposals have discussed eliminating tuition at public 2-year colleges in order to raise college enrollment among students with low parental income and improve life-cycle earnings outcomes. This paper calculates the elasticity of college enrollment to public 2-year college tuition...

This study evaluates the impact of a national level subsidized loan program, ACCES, on a number of higher education outcomes (i.e., increase in enrollment rates, decrease in dropout rates, and increase in academic performance) of low-income students in Colombia. We use national level data along...

One recent policy tend to improve teacher quality is providing conditional grants to trainees in teacher colleges and commit them to working in disadvantaged areas upon graduation. Yet little is known whether such policies attract better trainees. This paper evaluates a conditional grant program...

We develop a quantitative model of higher education to test explanations for the steep rise in college tuition between 1987 and 2010. The framework extends the quality-maximizing college paradigm of Epple, Romano, Sarpca, and Sieg (2013) and embeds it in an incomplete markets, life-cycle...

To borrow for college is to take a risk. Indebted students may not earn enough to repay their loans after they graduate or, worse, fail to graduate. For students who cannot pay for college without borrowing, this risk is both a disincentive and a penalty. Greater risk undermines the efficacy of...

Studies have cited students' inability to settle debts as a legitimate cause for continued university unrest and conflicts with institutions' management. Financial knowledge gap, result in students making uninformed debt choices and then struggle to manage it effectively. Universities were...