Public Funding and Enrolment into Higher Education in Europe

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Aniela Wirz ()
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Aniela Wirz: University of Zurich

No 503, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel for European countries and apply instrumental variables techniques to find that public funding for schooling – regardless at what level – does increase college enrolment alike with an elasticity of about one. A second issue concerns the impact of tuition fees, which are found to reduce college enrolment.

Keywords: College enrolment; public funding; tuition costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I22 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2002-05
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