Political regimes influence the contents of education and the criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree, as well as on several labor market outcomes, by exploiting the reorganization of the school...

It is recognised that expressive preferences may play a major role in determining voting decisions because the low probability of being decisive in elections undermines standard instrumental reasoning. Expressive and instrumental preferences may deviate and in electoral settings it is more...

This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...

This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...

The paper discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary education on student incentives. Education provides a signal on unobservable ability for employers and improves productivity after education. Selection sets better incentives in primary education and allows for improved peer group...

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies are state schools that are allowed to run in an...

Vor dem Hintergrund des russischen Angriffskriegs suchen immer mehr Familien aus der Ukraine Schutz in Deutschland. Am 5. Mai 2022 waren rund 242.000 geflüchtete Minderjährige aus der Ukraine in Deutschland registriert und die Fluchtzuwanderung setzt sich weiter fort. So dürften sich...

The effects of the horrific 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre went far beyond the destruction of 36 blocks of Black-owned property in the Greenwood section of Tulsa. The Sipuel family, burned out of their Greenwood home, moved to Chickasha, Oklahoma. Mrs. Sipuel became a civil rights activist, and she...

For almost ten years now, Europe has been existing and focusing on three main goals – intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth. All resources are organized and mobilized to achieve them, but it is more than obvious that education and science have a leading role. On the one hand, because...

This paper investigates the rates of return and the risks of different types of educational paths after compulsory education. We distinguish a purely academic educational path from a purely vocational path and a mixed path with loops through both systems. To study the labor market outcome we...