, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work … can reconcile the common decline of both gender gaps …

sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in … finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We firstly show that procrastination is a strong predictor of students … background characteristics and indicators of students' motivation. Secondly, we investigate, using a Regression Discontinuity …

would increase further by 2 percentage points in the absence of search frictions. Providing students with full information …

Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky … gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using detailed register data on the latest cohorts … of Danish labour market entrants, this paper examines the intergenerational correlation in gender-stereotypical choice of …

. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility … students' perceptions about the types of jobs that would be offered to them conditional on their college major choices, we … relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. We find that students perceive jobs offered to humanities majors to …

-5% average for all occupations.Although the US education system is developing an overall better product, given the requirements …

students with the same ability have a different rank in their respective cohort, the higher- ranked student is significantly …-ranked students under-invest in their human capital even if they have a high ability compared to most students of the same age …. Exploring potential channels, we find that students with a higher rank have higher expectations about their future career, a …