of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the timing of school enrollment to control for the impact of …

consider how parental valuation of education, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills influence endogenous schooling … increasing the likelihood of obtaining further education. Further, we find that both non-cognitive skills and parental valuation … for education play a larger role in determining income at age 25 than cognitive skills. Last, our analysis uncovers …

A growing number of academic studies are devoting their attention to the study of the gender wage gap. This paper …, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis and quantile decomposition. Findings suggest that a gender gap in hourly wages exists …

This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of gender congruence in the student-adviser relationship on … randomness in whether a student has a same-gender faculty adviser. First, we find that gender congruence in the student …-adviser relationship has a positive and significant effect on the odds of retention (gender congruence effect on the extensive margin) and …