Objectives: To analyze whether there are causal peer effects in criminal behavior among young students in upper secondary education. Methods: We follow four cohorts of Danish students (N=27,525) when they complete 9th or 10th grade and start upper secondary vocational education with new peers....

In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...

Across nations, large proportions of younger birth cohorts obtain no professional qualications. Using a structural dynamic approach, we analyze policies targeted adolescents who leave grade nine with a GPA in the bottom 20%. We find that preparatory courses, offered to young people who are...