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The policy measure G8 was supposed to bring German school leavers into university earlier. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of G8 on the transition from school into university using a difference-in-differences set-up within panel estimation with fixed effects. In comparison to a number of other studies in this paper, the complete time period of the G8 implementation (2006-2017) was considered, other macrofactors affecting the transition process were controlled for, and a full population survey encompassing realised enrolment rates was used. The main finding was that the G8 reform affected the enrolment rate for an immediate transition negatively but all other subsequent transition rates with higher time gaps positively. The university enrolment was hence postponed by at least one year due to G8.