@techreport{Baumgartner2006Does,
abstract = {Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment' and apply the difference-in-difference methodology using a discrete-time hazard rate model to estimate the causal effect on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant effect on enrolment rates.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Hans J. Baumgartner and Viktor Steiner},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {H31; I28; I22; J24; 330; educational transitions; educational finance; natural experiment and difference indifference estimation},
language = {eng},
number = {2034},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? Evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001},
type = {IZA Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33455},
year = {2006}
}
