Tuition fees and the time to graduation

Evidence From a Natural Experiment

Bibliographic Data

ID4545953
AuthorsKerstin Bruckmeier (0000-0002-4797-7543, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Georg Fischer (0000-0002-4033-2005, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Georg-Benedikt Fischer, Berthold U Wigger (0000-0001-5867-396X, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Year2015
Volume37
Issue4
Pages459-471
Publication date2015-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Higher Education Policy and Management (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-080X • E-ISSN: 1469-9508
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1360080x.2015.1056596
OpenAlexW1675442310
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

We used the recent introduction of general tuition fees at public universities in several of the German federal states as a natural experiment to identify whether tuition fees reduce the time to graduation and the extent to which they do so. We employed a difference-in-differences approach with the states that introduced fees as the treatment group and the states that remained fee-free as the control group. Our results indicate that the introduction of tuition fees led to a significant decrease in the time to graduation

Business · Control (management · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · German · Graduation (instrument · Management · Natural experiment · Treatment and control groups · Engineering · Higher Education Research Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Medical Education and Admissions · Medicine

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