Building on Lazear's skill weights approach, we study the effect of having more or less heterogeneity in the training curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi‐experimental setting as these modernizations can be...

Studierende für einen Studiengang zu gewinnen, die die richtigen Erwartungen an und aus‐ geprägtes Interesse für das jeweilige Studienfach haben, stellt eine besondere Schwierigkeit dar, wenn das Fach nicht Teil des allgemeinbildenden schulischen Lehrplans ist. In Nordrhein‐ Westfalen...

Studierende für einen Studiengang zu gewinnen, die die richtigen Erwartungen an und aus‐ geprägtes Interesse für das jeweilige Studienfach haben, stellt eine besondere Schwierigkeit dar, wenn das Fach nicht Teil des allgemeinbildenden schulischen Lehrplans ist. In Nordrhein‐ Westfalen...

This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in STEM subjects and who later work in STEM occupations. The reform had two important aspects: (i) it...

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using administrative student register data and exploiting the...

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using administrative student register data and exploiting the...