education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes …. Using unique longitudinal Belgian data, we find that pupils who work during the summer holidays of secondary education are … education enrolment. …

education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes …. Using unique longitudinal Belgian data, we find that pupils who work during the summer holidays of secondary education are … education enrolment …

, peers' observable characteristics impact college achievement for up to three years. Ability peer effects are non-linear, i ….e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low-ability …

intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education system with standard and elite universities generates social …

People self-assess their relative ability when making career choices. Thus, confidence in own abilities is likely an … important factor for selection into various career paths. In a sample of 711 first-year students we examine whether there are … systematic differences in confidence levels across fields of study. We find evidence for selection based on our experimental …