Projects

Many students drop out of secondary or higher education without obtaining a degree. A recent policy report (OECD, 2012) illustrates the problems: 16% of today's young adults in OECD countries do not complete secondary education. Up to 62% enter a university-level program, but only 39% are expected to complete it. Among the students who complete a degree, there is a large fraction that incurs substantial delays.

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This research project employs quasi-experimental methods on administrative population data to investigate whether family structure and education have a causal impact on the children’s criminal outcomes. Within this broad research agenda, contributions are made in four specific research topics. I first use family fixed effects and multiple births as an instrument to estimate whether birth order and family size causally influence children’s ...

This doctoral dissertation employs quasi-experimental empirical methods on administrative population data to investigate the causal relationship between high school dropout and its selected predictors, labour market consequences, and policies. Within this broad research agenda, contributions are made in four specific research topics. I first use coarsened exact matching and treatment effect bounds and find that children who were raised in a ...

The focus of the research in this project is on how social inequality is maintained vs. challenged in education and work fields in which particular social groups have traditionally been underrepresented, are negatively stereotyped, and often have lower status. Examples of people who find themselves in such social identity-threatening environments are students from lower socio-economic backgrounds in higher education, and women in ...

Learning outcomes of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) usually reflect a change in learners' knowledge about sustainability issues, but rarely translate into increased attitudes or competences to address sustainable development effectively as well. Although there is a growing consensus about what ESD's learning outcomes should be, there is no consensus yet on how to measure them. There is also a lacune when it comes to empirics ...

Educational differences in mental health and subjective well-being (SWB) are among the most consistent findings in social epidemiology. In general, lower educated people experience more psychological distress, a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms 1 and less SWB 3-8. Is this the result of selection effects leading more fit individuals toward higher credentials? Although we know that selection processes are present 9 educational ...