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 …

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … students' drop out decisions as well as later labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in … for lower ability students. …

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 …

We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …

We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …

Uncertainty about future income plays a conceptually important role in college decisions. Unfortunately, characterizing … how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at college entrance and how quickly this uncertainty is resolved has … describing one's beliefs about future earnings at an ideal time - immediately before students began their first year courses. We …

We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …