Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73459 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
BGPE Discussion Paper No. 124
Publisher: 
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
Between 1960 and 1979, 93 new universities opened in Germany. Using this large tertiary education expansion, I estimate the effect of a university opening on the probability of obtaining a university degree in the local population. I exploit the geographical variation in local university access in a difference-in-differences approach by comparing age cohorts in counties that were and were not affected by the opening. Results show that a new university increases the share of university graduates in a county by 8 to 10 percentage points. The effect seems to be mainly driven my females and immigrants.
Subjects: 
tertiary education
education expansion
difference-in-differences
natural experiment
new university opening
JEL: 
I23
I28
H75
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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