regression discontinuity design, we show that marginally eligible students forego vocational education in favor of universities …, their labor market outcomes are not different from those of ineligible students. We find suggestive evidence that the lower … cutoff and show that supra-marginal students benefit from this policy …

-aid reform that caused students to work more and accumulate less debt. To quantify mechanisms and perform counterfactuals, we …

This paper investigates the perception of corporate managers regarding employability skills of management students … of management students. The second part of research consists of a survey of 195 company supervisors who rated 405 intern … students on the 22 items identified in the first part. The results indicate that intern students lacked in communication skills …

administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due … among students in a classroom.We find that class size reduction is effective to reduce class closure due to flu: one unit …

high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … peers in business school. However, men's labor market outcomes are not significantly affected. Taken together, our results … show that studying with more female peers in business school increases gender segregation in educational choice and affects …

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of … across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find that bad economic conditions at high-school graduation increase …-market success. Outcomes are affected only by the economic conditions at high-school graduation, but not by those during earlier or …

This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of … Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, aiming at preventing school dropout and … tackling educational inequalities by providing disadvantaged students with the opportunity to discover the world of opera …

when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education. The job search approach underlines the role of …

students, including freshmen, transfers, undergraduates and graduate students. The model controls for factors other than … relative cost of alternative schools, the economic environment, and the pool of recent high school graduates. The results … indicate that freshman students are more sensitive to changes in tuition than other undergraduate students in general – a one …