This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students ́probability to enroll at university …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM …

-experiment in Germany's university admissions, we provide evidence against this assumption. We study a centralized clearinghouse … that implements the early stages of the university-proposing Gale-Shapley deferred-acceptance mechanism in real time … students to learn about universities and accepting a university that turns out to be inferior causes regret. We discuss and …

This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of … preferred field of study are more likely to change their field, delay graduation and drop out of university. The estimated …

countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never … enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less than university graduates. Moreover, university dropouts do not appear to have … university attendance without completion is rewarded in the labour market. We find some suggestive evidence that university …