Studiengebühren und das Wanderungsverhalten von Studienanfängern: eine panel- ökonometrische Wirkungsanalyse

The question of costs and benefits related to the introduction of tuition fees still dominates the current discussion of higher education policy in Germany. In this contribution, we quantify the effect of tuition fees on state-to-state migration patterns among university freshmen in Germany using an empirical migration model for all 16 German states (Bundesl¨ander) in the period 1999 to 2010. Overall, our results reveal a negative effect of...