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Determinants of college major choice : identification using an information experiment

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - In: The review of economic studies 82 (2015) 2, pp. 791-824

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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family

Wiswall, Matthew - 2017

. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family

Wiswall, Matthew - 2016

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The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students’ Major Choice

Baker, Rachel - 2017

An important goal of community colleges is to prepare students for the labor market. But are students aware of the … labor market outcomes in different majors? And how much do students weigh labor market outcomes when choosing a major? In … this study we find that less than 40% of a sample of community college students in California rank broad categories of …

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Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family

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Gender gaps in early wage expectations

Leibing, Andreas; Peter, Frauke; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and find that especially differences in coefficients help explain the gap. In...

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The reliability of students' earnings expectations

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The role of heterogeneous risk preferences, discount rates, and earnings expectations in college major choice

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Eliciting Student Expectations of the Returns to Schooling

Dominitz, Jeff; Manski, Charles F. - 2021

) survey eliciting from high school students and college undergraduates their expectations of the income they would earn if …

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