Léonard Moulin, Frais d’inscription dans l’enseignement supérieur : enjeux, limites et perspectives

Abstract

This thesis investigates the effects of tuition fees on students in french higher education. The first part is devoted to the theoretical study of tuition fees, by focusing on the motivations for the introduction of tuition fees, and on the effects of the inclusion of behavioral biases in the economic analysis of tuition fees. The second part focuses on the empirical effects of tuition fees, starting to provide a typology of institutional contexts before considering the effects of the introduction of tuition fees in a French university, the University Paris 9 Dauphine, and the possible generalization of our results to other French universities. The third section attempts to identify prospects and help fuel the debate, with theoretical and empirical evidence, on the possibility of another scheme for financing higher education.

Keywords

• higher education
• tuitions fees
• students
• access
• trajectories
• success