Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family backgrounds remain underrepresented in higher education around the world. This study sheds light on whether the provision of information in a randomized controlled trial with...

Ob junge Erwachsene nach dem Abitur ein Studium aufnehmen, hängt in Deutschland nach wie vor stark von der Bildung der Eltern ab. AbiturientInnen, die aus einem nichtakademischen Elternhaus kommen, studieren deutlich seltener – selbst dann, wenn sie vor dem Abitur eine Studienabsicht hatten....

Investigating the impact of family instability is important as more and more children experience different family changes in many industrialized countries. In this paper we examine the dynamics of family structure, looking at the potential effect of yearly maternal partnership transitions on...

This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrollment intentions and realized enrollment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six month after...