Thijs Bol

TL;DR: The results show that winners just above the funding threshold accumulate more than twice as much funding during the subsequent eight years as nonwinners with near-identical review scores that fall just below the threshold, suggesting that early funding itself is an asset for acquiring later funding.

TL;DR: The authors empirically study the trade-off between tracking and educational opportunity and empirically support the existence of the tradeoff between labor market allocation and equality of opportunity in tracking and vocational orientation.

TL;DR: In this article, a rent-based explanation of between-occupation wage inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom is presented. But the analysis is limited to four institutionalized sources of closure (educational credentialing, licensure, unionization, and apprenticeships).

TL;DR: This paper found that parent's social class has a larger effect on student achievement in systems without central examinations, whereas in systems with central examinations this relationship is attenuated, and argued that central examinations help hold schools accountable for their performance, thereby making it more likely for schools to allocate students to tracks and reward them on the basis of objective indicators, thereby reducing the impact of parental status on children's performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that not only the strength of the relationship between education and labor market outcomes, but also the mechanisms explaining why education is rewarded differ between countries, and they focus on the partial effects of qualifications on top of years of education in 15 European countries.