The enrollment effect of secondary school fees in post-war Germany.

Autor/in	Riphahn, Regina T.
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	The enrollment effect of secondary school fees in post-war Germany.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2004), 44 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Bonn). 1295
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsbeteiligung; Bildungschance; Chancengleichheit; Junge; Schule; Schulbesuch; Schulgeld; Schulgeldfreiheit; Sekundarstufe II; Sekundarbereich; Datenanalyse; Wirkungsforschung; Mädchen; Deutschland; Deutschland (1945-1949); Deutschland-BRD
Abstract	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'. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2006/2