Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college … suggests a role for policies that increase returns from studying nursing to attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

This paper examines the returns to institutional quality for college transfer students and asks whether the additional … information provided by such students provides insight into the role of human capital accumulation in determining a college …

We study the impact of racial representation among academic staff on university students' academic and labor market … outcomes. We use administrative data on the universe of staff and students at all UK universities, linked to survey data on … students' post-graduation outcomes, exploiting idiosyncratic variation (conditional on a set of fixed effects and observable …

students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …