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Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …

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Universities as Stakeholders in Their Students' Careers : On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education

McKenzie, Tom; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are …

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Leadership Experiences, Labor Market Entry, and Early Career Trajectories

Lundin, Martin - 2018

effects of being elected into Swedish student union councils on subsequent labor market careers. Marginally elected students …

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Gender Differences in Stem Persistence after Graduation

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM persistence over the career. We find a continuous...

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Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions

De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021

We investigate how academic promotions affect the propensity of women to have a child. We use administrative data on the universe of female assistant professors employed in Italian universities from 2001 to 2018. We estimate a model with individual fixed effects and find that promotion to...

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The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations : The 'Masterchef Effect'

Pietro, Giorgio Di - 2016

In recent years, in Italy, a larger number of students have chosen to attend vocational hospitality and catering … final year lower secondary school students willing to enrol at vocational hospitality and catering schools of between 0 …

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Women's Career Choices, Social Norms and Child Care Policies

Barigozzi, Francesca - 2017

Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples,...

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Career Choice and the Strength of Weak Ties

Tumen, Semih - 2017

This paper argues that the structure (i.e., size and composition) of the informal search network is a crucial determinant of the career decisions of young workers. Building on the search-theoretic career choice and job mobility model proposed by Neal (1999), I compare the consequences of career...

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Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices Along the Whole Ability Distribution

Buser, Thomas - 2017

more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily … with ability and reaches 30–40 percentage points for the highest-ability students. 2. Willingness to compete predicts …

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Early Career Research Production in Economics : Does Mentoring Matter?

García-Suaza, Andrés - 2018

positively related to the academic productivity of graduates. However, students in top institutions do not benefit from working … with the most productive academics, unless they become co-authors. For students in non-top institutions, being advised by …

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