“...This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human...”

“...This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000...”

“...This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that...”

“...Summary Factor structure models are widely used in economics to extract latent variables, such as personality traits, and to measure their impact on outcomes...”

“...This study presents evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. We show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as intensity...”

“...We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods...”

“...Studies of animals and plants suggest that nutritional conditions in one generation may affect phenotypic characteristics in subsequent generations. A small...”