TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Goehausen, Johannes
AU  - Thomsen, Stephan L.
        TI  - Housing Costs, College Enrollment, and Student Mobility
        PY  - 2024/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16726
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16726
        AB  - We study the effects of rental price changes on college enrollment rates. We exploit cross-district variation in the size and timing of local rental price booms in Germany during the 2010s. A one standard deviation increase in apartment rents decreased per-capita college enrollment by 1.1 percentage points on average. The effect was driven by first-year students moving long distances and was more pronounced in less densely populated locations. Housing costs - the largest component of students' expenditures and an important location factor - have contributed to the slowdown in higher education expansion and reduced the skill-binding effect of universities, exacerbating regional inequality.
        KW  - college enrollments
KW  - housing market
KW  - apartment rents
        ER  -