educational choices did not increase students' own choice of the academic upper-secondary track. Concerning the mechanisms of … be the mechanism that drives students to conform to peers' choices. This paper interprets the absence of peer influence … in upper-secondary track choices as evidence that peer influence cannot derail students' socially determined educational …

tuition fees, with contextual admission for disadvantaged students. An alternative admission channel admits lower …-ability students subject to substantial selection-fees, retained by the under-funded schools. We combine a cumulative multiple … insignificantly different from zero, for students who barely made it into the more selective school. However, the effect of attending …

-authored with Darjusch Tafreschi and Sharon Pfister) examines the effect of course repetition in higher education. Students who do … der Universität auswirken. Studierende der Universität St. Gallen, die eine bestimmte Leistungsschwelle nicht erreichen …, vergleichen wir Studierende, die sich diesseits oder jenseits dieser Leistungsschwelle befinden, aber nah an der Leistungsschwelle …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … find that the benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students and decline when the …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …