We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

education. Although to some extent picking up inherited and acquired skills, our results suggest that if parents exhibit gender … stereotypical labour market behaviour, children of the same sex are more likely to choose a gender stereotypical education. The …

Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … that students enter school quite optimistic about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students end up …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …