Student Aid, Repayment Obligations and Enrolment in Higher Education in Germany - Evidence from a "Natural Experiment"
Student Aid, Repayment Obligations and Enrolment in Higher Education in Germany - Evidence from a "Natural Experiment"
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德国高等教育的学生资助、还款义务和入学——来自“自然实验”的证据
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2005
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通讯作者：
Viktor Steiner
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Hans J. Baumgartner;Viktor Steiner
我们评估的效果，德国联邦教育援助法（BAfoeG）的高等教育入学率，利用外源性的变化，通过一个离散的转变，在还款规定。虽然直到1990年，接受援助的学生必须全额偿还其贷款，但自联邦助学金改革以来，其中50%是作为无偿助学金提供的。我们的结果从简单的差异中的差异估计表明，学生援助是无效的，在提高入学率。我们的研究结果可能对当前德国和其他地方关于高等教育融资改革的辩论具有重要意义。
We evaluate the effect of the German Federal Educational Assistance Act (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates in higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. While up to 1990, students receiving assistance had to repay their loans in full, since the BAfoeG reform, 50 percent thereof has been offered as a non-repayable grant. Our results from simple difference-in-difference estimates suggest that student aid is ineffective in raising enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education in Germany and elsewhere.