There is growing concern that the U.S. is producing too few college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and there is a desire to understand how various policies affect college major decisions. This paper uses student administrative records from the...

Student loans, even income-contingent ones, are not optimal. Potential university students with the appropriate characteristics should be offered a scholarship, dependent on both need and merit. The award of the scholarship should be conditional on the choice of university degree, but students...

We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using data from a survey of more than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials...

Gegenstand dieser Evaluation ist die Promotionsförderung der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, durch die jährlich etwa 450 Promotionsstipendiatinnen und -stipendiaten gefördert werden. Die Basis dieser Studie ist eine Befragung aller Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, deren...