We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …

expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries … explained partially by the seniority of students, the self-perception of their academic performance and their subjective job … students show the necessity to analyse the question further with bigger and more representative samples. …

international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

focusing on explicitly stated parental preferences for their children’s occupations, using a large-scale randomized survey … experiment with adults (N=5940) in Switzerland. The focus on parents (and hypothetical parents) is motivated by the observation … that adolescents consistently mention their parents as the single most important factor influencing their career choices …