Education researchers have long made inferences about grade retention from the grade distribution of same-aged students …

, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …