Burgard, And Mitze Case Study Summary

Alecke, Björn, Claudia Burgard, and Timo Mitze. "The Effect of Tuition Fees on Student Enrollment and Location Choice–Interregional Migration, Border Effects and Gender Differences." Ruhr Economic Paper 404 (2013). Björn Alecke is an economist in the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Münster. His specialties are in the fields of foreign trade, social and economics history, and the theory of integration. With this knowledge, he teamed up with authors, Claudia Burgard, and Timo Mitze, who too have masters in Economics, performed a macro-level investigation on tuition rates and its effect on student enrollment and mobility. Their investigation took into account records of student demand for university services, location, the student’s primary responses when first introduced to the costs of education, and gender. The researchers concluded that tuition fees did not have an impact on enrollment rates; however, it was the added fees that did. Without added fees, there was an …show more content…
David Post, a professor of education policy at Pennsylvania State University, investigated a hypothetical approach, that some would consider a solution to student debt, which in this case is, free tuition. His specialty is the topic of accessibility of higher education with Latin American countries and their national polities and cultures. With his background, he looked into policy in Ecuador that deems higher education to be considered “free” and found that it made a minimal to negative effect to those that were offered. He stated that that those that only benefit from this opportunity were those that were already with an advantage. The article emphasizes that free tuition is only really subsidizing those that already had an advantage as opposed to those that are not. For readers wondering of a hypothetical solution, Post’s conclusion would help convey the idea that a “free” higher education not a solution and that tuition is not such a bad thing after