We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in observational data, we use recently developed methods that relate selection on observables with...

Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...

Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...

In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries, labor markets are characterized by employment growth and skill shortages. In these, vocational schooling has produced higher wages and returns on investment than general education. Using 1998 Egyptian...

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...

Mit den vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels zunehmenden Lücken am Arbeitsmarkt und den sich verändernden Anforderungen an die Beschäftigten im Kontext von Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung und De-Globalisierung wird es in Deutschland und Europa immer wichtiger, dass die...

Mit den vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels zunehmenden Lücken am Arbeitsmarkt und den sich verändernden Anforderungen an die Beschäftigten im Kontext von Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung und De-Globalisierung wird es in Deutschland und Europa immer wichtiger, dass die...

This article examines the relationship between the timing of childhood immigration and children's life chances in adulthood. I analyze panel data on siblings from Norwegian administrative registries which enables me to disentangle the effect of age at arrival on adult socioeconomic outcomes from...