Abstract

Distance can form a barrier to enrolment in a university programme, particularly when it requires a student to move out of the parental home. Many high-income countries offer an additional student grant to students living away from the parental home to partly compensate them for their higher financial costs. However, it is unclear whether such a financially oriented policy reduces the role of distance in university choice and how it compares to a similar but less costly policy offering student loans instead of grants.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherMaastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics
Number of pages29
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Feb 2024

Publication series

SeriesGSBE Research Memoranda
Number002
ISSN2666-8807

JEL classifications

  • r23 - "Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics"
  • i22 - Educational Finance
  • i23 - Higher Education and Research Institutions
  • i24 - Education and Inequality
  • o15 - "Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration"

Keywords

  • student aid
  • policy reform
  • university enrolment
  • field of study
  • spatial inequality
  • leaving home

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