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| Title: | | Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001  |
| Authors: | | Baumgartner, Hans J. Steiner, Viktor |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 563 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | educational transitions educational finance natural experiment and difference-indifference estimation |
| JEL: | | J24 H31 I22 I28 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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