The enrollment effect of secondary school fees in post-war Germany
By: by Regina T. Riphahn.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1295; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1295
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: School enrollment -- Germany (West); High schools -- Germany (West); Education -- Germany (West) -- Finance.
Description: "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'"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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