Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the full sample, all years
| Â | Mean | SD | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Panel identifier | 115.37 | 67.70 | 1.00 | 229.00 |
First-year students | 1,230.59 | 1,186.17 | 12.00 | 7627.00 |
Public tuition fee charging [dummy] | 0.22 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
Year of first tuition charging | 1,295.35 | 959.82 | 0.00 | 2007.00 |
Persistent treatment after charging tuitions once [dummy] | 0.51 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
Upper secondary school graduates [in thousands] | 29.69 | 23.38 | 2.08 | 117.89 |
Military service [dummy] | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
Unemployment rate [percentage] | 7.95 | 3.69 | 2.90 | 20.50 |
Vocational training contracts acquired | 60,474.57 | 39,044.07 | 5,304.00 | 132,033.00 |
Gross domestic product [per capita] | 63,366.01 | 9,341.72 | 41,386.00 | 93,368.00 |
Proportion of bachelor-degrees and master-degrees | 50.41 | 26.55 | 1.99 | 85.34 |
Year (start of winter-semester) | 2010.50 | 4.61 | 2003.00 | 2018.00 |
Observations | 3,296 | Â | Â | Â |