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Old April 22, 2019, 11:51 PM
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Thank you for the detailed input, aleCcowaN. It is always appreciated.

I think I’m going to settle on:

¿Qué fue lo que le hizo decidirse a volver a sus estudios?

To my ear, it doesn’t convey that something external to him provoked him to attend school, which was my intent, but it gets the message across that he decided to return to his studies, so it is fine. No further input is needed on that issue.

However, I know that “le hizo decidirse” is correct because I have heard “le hizo” before and you wrote “le hizo” in your response, but why is it “le” instead of “lo”? I assume “lo” is used with the other verbs like motivar, incitar, and provocar.
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