Tuition fees and the time to graduation

Abstract

"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." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Bruckmeier, K., Fischer, G. & Wigger, B. (2015): Tuition fees and the time to graduation. Evidence from a natural experiment. In: Journal of higher education policy and management, Vol. 37, No. 4, p. 459-471. DOI:10.1080/1360080X.2015.1056596