Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device
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- Ketel, Nadine & Linde, Jona & Oosterbeek, Hessel & van der Klaauw, Bas, 2014. "Tuition fees as a commitment device," CEPR Discussion Papers 9862, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
sunk-cost effect; higher education; field experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2014-03-01 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2014-03-01 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2014-03-01 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
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