Arbeitspapier

Housing Costs, College Enrollment, and Student Mobility

We study the effects of rental price changes on college enrollment rates. We exploit cross-district variation in the size and timing of local rental price booms in Germany during the 2010s. A one standard deviation increase in apartment rents decreased per-capita college enrollment by 1.1 percentage points on average. The effect was driven by first-year students moving long distances and was more pronounced in less densely populated locations. Housing costs - the largest component of students' expenditures and an important location factor - have contributed to the slowdown in higher education expansion and reduced the skill-binding effect of universities, exacerbating regional inequality.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16726

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Housing Supply and Markets
Thema
college enrollments
housing market
apartment rents

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Goehausen, Johannes
Thomsen, Stephan L.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2024

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Goehausen, Johannes
  • Thomsen, Stephan L.
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2024

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