Many decisions - such as what educational or career path to pursue - are dynamic in nature, with individuals receiving feedback at one point in time and making decisions later. Using a controlled experiment, with two sessions one week apart, we analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs...

Weak labor markets typically lead young workers to invest in skills. High unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns: enrollment at community colleges dropped by 9.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, with the drop larger among men. COVID disruptions generated supply-side impacts on...

Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals, but because who is in a field may shape what is studied by it. If increasing the rate of majoring in mathematically-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then...

Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of...

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that created small high school...

It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...

We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...

Bildungsausstieg nach der Pflichtschule ist eine individuelle und gesellschaftliche Problematik mit langfristigen Konsequenzen und hohen Folgekosten. In Politik und Öffentlichkeit wird der Migrationshintergrund von Jugendlichen als Hauptrisikofaktor für einen frühen Austritt aus der Schule...

Die Tagung "Zur Relativitätstheorie des Bildungsverhaltens – Soziale Milieus, Bedürfnisse und Weiterbildungsmotivation", die am 5. Juni 2013 im Kardinal König Haus in Wien stattfand, hatte zum Ziel, die Abhängigkeit von Weiterbildungsmotivation und Weiterbildungsverhalten von der...