Drawing on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we show that students who select majors that …

evidence that FiF students are less likely to graduate from elite universities and have a higher probability of dropping out …Universities around the world are attempting to increase the diversity of their student population. This includes … likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates. We also find …

-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best … assign, on average, lower grades and conjectured that female students exhibit stronger aversion to low grades, hence their … attachment to the field. A key implication is that categories of students who attach high importance to pecuniary benefits of …

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … students' drop out decisions as well as later labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in … for lower ability students. …

panel data for all students in Guatemala, the study employs a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages municipal …, and a greater share of students switching from private to public schools. These effects were more pronounced during the …