This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality. …

Education is a crucial determinant of labour market success. We investigate whether education is an appropriate means … pronounced for individuals with upper secondary education or no formal qualifications. Moreover, we find a negative relationship … and workers with intermediate vocational education. Yet, differences between educational groups are not statistically …

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes … but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health … extensive and intensive margins of education on mental health using various estimators. For all estimators, accounting for the …

depends on their high importance for administrative processes. The education variable in the IAB employment sub-sample is an … Mincer-type wage regressions. The procedure reveals that the quality of years in education is very important: The German … labour market rewards general education less than vocational training. Furthermore, using this method, no indication of an …

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes … but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health … extensive and intensive margins of education on mental health using various estimators. For all estimators, accounting for the …