Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20561 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1295
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study utilizes the heterogeneity of the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative school enrollment statistics as well as on representative individual-level data from three annual surveys of the German Mikrozensus. Estimates suggest that enrollment in Advanced Schools increased by about six percent due to the fee abolition, where the results are sensitive to the specification choice. The positive enrollment effect of fee abolition for women exceeds that for men. A fifty percent reduction in fees is associated with an overall change in enrollment rates by 3 percent, where the elasticity of the demand for females' education again exceeds that for males'.
Subjects: 
school fees
tuition
enrollment
demand for education
natural experiment
JEL: 
C21
H71
I20
H52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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