Tuition Fees and Student Achievement - Evidence from a Differential Raise in Fees

摘要: This study analyses the effect of an increase in college costs on student achievement, particularly time-to-degree and performance. I exploit a unique policy at Swiss university to identify estimate causal tuition. Students faced unexpected raise varied substantially across different students. The fees were increased by 81.7% for international students 20.2% variation allows me follow difference-in-differences strategy. formally discuss identification with multiple treatments. find best modest effects achievement. Results suggest small positive anticipation probability graduate credit accumulation end their studies. These effort levels do not affect grade average After raise, disappear. There is weak evidence negative grades further away from graduation.