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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16726
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Housing Supply and Markets
- Thema
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college enrollments
housing market
apartment rents
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Goehausen, Johannes
Thomsen, Stephan L.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2024
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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