Der Band gibt eine Übersicht zu den Befunden und Analysen einer Studie über die Werdegänge und Erfolge ehemaliger Promotionsstipendiaten der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (HBS). Den empirischen Kern der Studie bildet eine schriftliche Befragung von ehemaligen Promotionsstipendiaten der HBS, ihren...

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we...

Five years after introducing tuition fees, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) abolished them in March 2011. Using student-level panel data, we assess the effects of this reform on academic activity and performance in two universities in NRW: a state university and a private...