Housing costs, college enrollment, and student mobility

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Authors

  • Johannes Göhausen
  • Stephan L Thomsen

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Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBonn, Germany
Number of pages66
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - Jan 2024

Publication series

NameDiscussion paper series
PublisherIZA Institute of Labor Economics
Volume16726
ISSN (Print)2365-9793

Abstract

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.

Keywords

    housing market, college enrollments, apartment rents

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Housing costs, college enrollment, and student mobility. / Göhausen, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L.
Bonn, Germany, 2024. (Discussion paper series; Vol. 16726).

Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper/Discussion paper

Göhausen, J., & Thomsen, S. L. (2024). Housing costs, college enrollment, and student mobility. (Discussion paper series; Vol. 16726). Advance online publication. https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/16726/housing-costs-college-enrollment-and-student-mobility
Göhausen J, Thomsen SL. Housing costs, college enrollment, and student mobility. Bonn, Germany. 2024 Jan. (Discussion paper series). Epub 2024 Jan.
Göhausen, Johannes ; Thomsen, Stephan L. / Housing costs, college enrollment, and student mobility. Bonn, Germany, 2024. (Discussion paper series).
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