complete high school, those students who take the alternative pathway have better post-secondary outcomes in both education and …High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some …

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia … work experience. In contrast, foreign PhD graduates with a non-English speaking background experience worse labour market … outcomes, especially if they work in the university sector. Acquiring education in the host country does not appear to …

We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access … to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to … also that graduates from higher socioeconomic status have an advantage in accessing internships while being significantly …

We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because … not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all … the cantons have to bear the public costs for studying for their students irrespective of their study place. On average …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …

engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i … relationship between studying STEM and voting. To do so, we create a dataset of over 23 million students in the U.S. matched to … school and college students to voting outcomes. It also contains a rich set of demographic and academic variables, to account …

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …