Die Umstellung der Studienstruktur auf die Bachelor-/Masterstudiengänge stellt einen tiefgreifenden Veränderungsprozess im deutschen Bildungssystem dar. Einerseits eröffnen die kürzeren Bachelorabschlüsse einen schnelleren Übergang in den Arbeitsmarkt und geben den Studierenden die...

College-for-all: how community colleges open new opportunities -- Can alternative credentials avoid the usual opportunity barriers? -- Money isn't everything: do sub-BA credentials lead to nonmonetary job rewards? -- Beyond one-dimensional qualifications: how students discover hidden abilities...

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the period 1985 to 2010, we investigate the importance of a student's peers in higher education for the decision to drop out. We use high school GPA as a predetermined measure of...

This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a...