Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy balancing, we …This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While … find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings premium of …