Katherine M Caves
Biographic Data
| ID | 3557165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine M Caves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Caves |
| SIGNATURE | CAVES K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3450-5942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New information, new interests? Impact of an occupation finder on vocational choices of lower secondary students
When making career-defining decisions, individuals should be well-informed. This study examines the impact of a low-cost personalised information intervention on occupational choices for students in lower-secondary education in Switzerland. Using data from an online platform and a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we analyse how a tool called occupation finder affects the number of occupations students apply to. The findings show that tailor…
Vocational education and training (VET) system governance
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership
Education governance networks are increasingly common and very diverse. In a strategic case study, we apply a new social network analysis method to evaluate the sustainability of a public-private education governance network. We examine the balance of satisfaction across public and private sectors and the network’s fairness in terms of whether actor groups’ investments in the network are proportional to their influence. We find that this establis…
Valuable Experience
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory internships at the closest university, exploiting the low mobility of Swiss students. The results show th…
Meeting in the Middle
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs are most successful at supporting youth labor markets when they combine education and employment. Education–employment linkage theory describes this combination in terms of power-sharing between actors from the education system and their counterparts in the employment system over key processes in the curriculum value chain of curriculum design, curriculum application (program deliver…
Operationalizing institutions
Social institutions are relatively stable patterns of behaviour or joint action that help overcome fundamental problems and perform a function in society. Despite the importance of social institutions, scholars find it difficult to identify and assess their robustness empirically. Building on institutionalism theories, we develop a theoretical framework of institutional robustness, where robustness describes ideal, long-lasting, or otherwise stro…
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership
Education governance networks are increasingly common and very diverse. In a strategic case study, we apply a new social network analysis method to evaluate the sustainability of a public-private education governance network. We examine the balance of satisfaction across public and private sectors and the network’s fairness in terms of whether actor groups’ investments in the network are proportional to their influence. We find that this establis…
Valuable Experience
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory internships at the closest university, exploiting the low mobility of Swiss students. The results show th…
Meeting in the Middle
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs are most successful at supporting youth labor markets when they combine education and employment. Education–employment linkage theory describes this combination in terms of power-sharing between actors from the education system and their counterparts in the employment system over key processes in the curriculum value chain of curriculum design, curriculum application (program deliver…
Operationalizing institutions
Social institutions are relatively stable patterns of behaviour or joint action that help overcome fundamental problems and perform a function in society. Despite the importance of social institutions, scholars find it difficult to identify and assess their robustness empirically. Building on institutionalism theories, we develop a theoretical framework of institutional robustness, where robustness describes ideal, long-lasting, or otherwise stro…
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership
Education governance networks are increasingly common and very diverse. In a strategic case study, we apply a new social network analysis method to evaluate the sustainability of a public-private education governance network. We examine the balance of satisfaction across public and private sectors and the network’s fairness in terms of whether actor groups’ investments in the network are proportional to their influence. We find that this establis…
Vocational education and training (VET) system governance
New information, new interests? Impact of an occupation finder on vocational choices of lower secondary students
When making career-defining decisions, individuals should be well-informed. This study examines the impact of a low-cost personalised information intervention on occupational choices for students in lower-secondary education in Switzerland. Using data from an online platform and a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we analyse how a tool called occupation finder affects the number of occupations students apply to. The findings show that tailor…
Economics (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Higher Education and Employability (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Vocational education (3 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 works) · Apprenticeship (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works)