University applicants. We analyze the extent to which students expectations of their starting and future salary depend on … different characteristics. More precisely, the paper investigates whether students with different backgrounds tend towards … making larger or smaller errors when estimating salaries. The results point out that students salary estimates are …

Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college … education and the impact of their ex ante wage expectations on college enrolment. The analysis contributes to a small developing … literature that uses subjective wage expectation data to predict education choice. We surveyed a full cohort of healthcare …

outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges … of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a …

mitigate the selection problem, we control for school-specific fixed effects, as well as very flexible application … chooses a science major and on his or her cumulative GPA. Conversely, students who attend campuses with stronger peers in the … sciences are less likely to graduate with a science degree. Weaker, non-minority students typically react to stronger peers in …

important factor for selection into various career paths. In a sample of 711 first-year students we examine whether there are … confidence measure: While Political Science students exhibit the highest confidence levels, students of Humanities range at the … other end of the scale. This may have important implications for subsequent earnings and/or professions students select …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage … expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing … healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who …

), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male …In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

We estimate the effects on postsecondary education outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous place-based college …

the expected costs to studying. Among high school pupils, we find that pupils with a more positive view of their academic …Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets … we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing …