Do second chances at a high-stakes admission exam yield long-term gains? Leveraging fifteen years of Chilean administrative data and an RDD, we examine the causal effects of retaking on educational and labor market trajectories.
Unpaid parental caregiving often arrives when older workers make largely irreversible Social Security benefit claiming decisions. Using the Health and Retirement Study linked to Social Security administrative records, we examine how parental caregiving is related to claiming and labor supply.
We study belief accuracy in a centralized higher-education admissions system using Norwegian data that combine a large pre-admission expectations survey with administrative records on offers, enrollment, and completion.