-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect … is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control … non-trivial earnings penalty. The main source of the persistent penalty appears to be the loss of work experience after …

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect … is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control … non-trivial earnings penalty. The main source of the persistent penalty appears to be the loss of work experience after …

students early on were separated between academic and vocational tracks, in favor of more comprehensive schools. The effects of … these reforms have generally been difficult to evaluate and their consequences for students' educational and labor market … performing students. Though one important motive behind the policy change was to enable all upper secondary school graduates to …

This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are … forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …

indication that students with children have a lower dropout rate since their probability to register a diploma is higher …In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been …

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational … the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …

with 6.5 percent higher average earnings over the first three years in the labor market. These results are the first direct … they stress the importance of skill acquisition for students who may eventually drop out. …