income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to …

complex than the biological relationship of parents to children in both Sweden and the United States. …It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …

earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks … at 16 years of experience when their wages are 52% (24%) greater than those whose parents both have only 5 (10) years of …