Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? evaluating the german student aid reform of 2001
By: by Hans J. Baumgartner, Viktor Steiner
Contributors: Steiner, Viktor
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2034; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2034
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Student assistance programs; Low-income college students
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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