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TY - JOUR
T1 - The effects of the 2006 tuition fee reform and the Great Recession on university student dropout behaviour in the UK
AU - Bradley, Steve
AU - Migali, Giuseppe
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 164, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.06.002
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - This paper investigates the causal effect of the Great Recession, and a conditional effect of a tuition fee reform, on the risk of students dropping out of HE. We use HESA data and our analysis combines duration modelling with difference-in-differences. We find that the causal effect of the recession increases the risk of drop out, especially for males. A smaller and positive effect of the tuition fee reform for males, whereas we observe the opposite effect for females. Differences in dropout behaviour are also found for high and low income groups, and between different types of university and subjects studied.
AB - This paper investigates the causal effect of the Great Recession, and a conditional effect of a tuition fee reform, on the risk of students dropping out of HE. We use HESA data and our analysis combines duration modelling with difference-in-differences. We find that the causal effect of the recession increases the risk of drop out, especially for males. A smaller and positive effect of the tuition fee reform for males, whereas we observe the opposite effect for females. Differences in dropout behaviour are also found for high and low income groups, and between different types of university and subjects studied.
KW - Tuition fee reform
KW - Recession
KW - University dropouts
U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.06.002
M3 - Journal article
VL - 164
SP - 331
EP - 356
JO - Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation
JF - Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation
SN - 0167-2681
ER -