Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82695 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003:8
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
In this paper we evaluate the changes in the times-to-degree at the Finnish universities in the 1990s. In particular, we evaluate the effect of the 1992 student aid reform that was intended to shorten the duration of university studies. We find that the student aid reform had only a modest effect, and that this effect was limited to the fields with long median durations. Most of the decline in the observed times-to-degree can be explained by an increase in the unemployment rate that reduced student employment opportunities.
Subjects: 
Times-to-degree
university education
student aid
duration analysis
JEL: 
I22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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