Educational Interventions and Labor Market Success

First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor Klaus F. Zimmermann for his guidance, continuous support and valuable comments on my papers. I am also indebted to Katja Görlitz for immediately agreeing to be my second supervisor and lending her expertise from the field of empirical labor economics. A special thank goes to my co-author and mentor Thomas Siedler for our produc-tive and delightful cooperation. My work immensely gained from his enthusiasm and encouragement. Furthermore, I am grateful to Helmut Lütkepohl for being a wonderful employer. I wrote this thesis while being a doctoral student in the Graduate Center of DIW Berlin. This program’s academic training and stimulating research environment helped tremendously in completing this thesis. Thanks to my colleagues and friends at DIW Berlin for our fruitful discussions, mutual support and making the institute a fun place. I also benefited from being an IZA Research Affiliate. IZA’s policy events and research network were great sources of inspiration. Many thanks also to numerous researchers at conferences, seminars, and workshops—particularly to the participants of the BeN