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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

We study how adolescents' second-order beliefs about their parents' occupational preferences shape gendered career aspirations. In a consequential early-career choice setting, we combine a parental choice experiment with a randomized salience intervention among students. Parents give gendered...

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2025

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Tastes, ability or expected wages? : the intended choice of college majors by students in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Campo, Francesco; Lodigiani, Elisabetta - 2026

We investigate the factors influencing the intended college major choices of high school students in Italy, ranking the relative importance of expected earnings, perceived ability, and major-specific tastes, that we measure directly using a Coller and Williams game. We find that major-specific...

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Tastes, ability or expected wages? : the intended choice of college majors by students in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Campo, Francesco; Lodigiani, Elisabetta - 2026

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Generative AI and career choices

Gschwendt, Christian; Viarengo, Martina; Zöllner, Thea S. - 2026

The economic impact of technological change will critically depend on how future workers invest in their human capital. Yet, little is known about how future workers themselves evaluate and choose their educational and occupational paths in light of emerging technologies. This paper examines how...

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Generative AI and career choices

Gschwendt, Christian; Viarengo, Martina; Zöllner, Thea S. - 2026

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Household taxation, nonlinear occupations, and gender gaps

Denderski, Piotr; Obermeier, Tim - 2026

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Beyond occupational sorting : how skills shape task allocation and immigrant disadvantage

Tverdostup, Marina; Walter, Dora - 2026

Immigrants across Europe earn less and work in lower-quality jobs than natives, but the mechanisms underlying these disparities remain poorly understood. This paper asks whether immigrant disadvantage reflects barriers to accessing good jobs or skill deficits that persist even within similar...

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The effect of longer maternal care on children's occupation choices

Sinani, Sofiana - 2026

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2026

This paper studies how college major choices shape earnings and fertility outcomes. Using administrative data that link students' preferences, random assignment to majors, and post-college outcomes, we estimate the causal pecuniary and nonpecuniary returns to different fields of study. We...

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College Major Choice, Payoffs, and Gender Gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2026

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2025

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Gender and intergenerational mobility : unequal economic outcomes between siblings

Leites, Martín; Vilá, Joan - 2026

This paper examines the role of sibling sex composition as a potential explanation of the transmission of parental advantages to the next generation. The presence of a brother affects the family environment and parents' decisions, influencing the siblings' labour market outcomes in the long...

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Emigration prospects and educational choices : evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg corridor

Beine, Michel; Fromentin, Vincent; Sánchez Bachiller, … - 2026 - Original version: June 2024, this version: Februar 2026

An extensive literature has documented the incentive effect of emigration prospects in terms of human capital accumulation at origin. Less attention has been paid to the impact on specific educational choices. Using novel data from graduates from the University of Lorraine (France) we find that...

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Emigration prospects and educational choices : evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg corridor

Beine, Michel; Fromentin, Vincent; Bachiller, Javier … - 2024

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Disparate impacts of teacher certification exams

Deneault, Christa; Riehl, Evan; Zou, Jian - 2026

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Taxing entrepreneurs and workers : a linear optimization approach for multidimensional screening

Ceneri, Nicolò; Lopomo, Giuseppe; Villa, Alessandro T.; … - 2026

We study optimal taxation in economies with general equilibrium market clearing, where agents with privately known labor skills and entrepreneurial abilities choose between deterministic labor income and risky firm operation. The government observes labor income and realized dividends but not...

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Correcting beliefs about job opportunities and wages : a field experiment on education choices

Koning, Bart K. de; Dur, Robert A. J.; Fouarge, Didier - 2026

In a natural field experiment, we provide information to students about job opportunities and hourly wages of occupations they are interested in. The experiment takes place within a widely-used career orientation program in the Netherlands, and involves 28,186 pre-vocational secondary education...

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Correcting beliefs about job opportunities and wages : a field experiment on education choices

Koning, Bart K. de; Dur, Robert A. J.; Fouarge, Didier - 2025

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Bound by tradition : cultural gender norms and occupational choice

Irmert, Natalie - 2026

This paper investigates whether cultural gender norms about occupations, defined as a society's perception of what is appropriate work for men and women, contribute to persistent gender-stereotypical occupational choice. Using large-scale international survey data and high-quality administrative...

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Occupational heterogeneity of child penalty in the United States

Gulek, Ahmet - 2026

I investigate how parenthood reshapes employment patterns across occupations and how this occupational heterogeneity contributes to earning disparities. Using a novel rotating panel approach to estimating child penalties, I document that both men and women change occupations. The...

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College majors and skill mismatch in labour markets : a general equilibrium approach

Rendall, Michelle; Tanaka, Satoshi; Zhang, Yi - 2026

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Declining occupations and career outcomes in Norway

Barth, Erling; Hoen, Maria F.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; … - 2026

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The declining local bias of entrepreneurship in the United States

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; … - 2026

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The Declining Local Bias of Entrepreneurship in the United States

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2026

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Imperfect self-knowledge about skills and skill mismatch

Goller, Daniel; Brox, Enzo; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

Why do people sort into poorly fitting occupations? This paper shows that imperfect selfknowledge about skills is an important source of skill mismatch at labor market entry. We use unique data from standardized professional aptitude tests linked to administrative records on educational...

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Imperfect self-knowledge about skills and skill mismatch

Goller, Daniel; Brox, Enzo; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

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Imperfect self-knowledge about skills and skill mismatch

Goller, Daniel; Brox, Enzo; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

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Imperfect self-knowledge about skills and skill mismatch

Goller, Daniel; Brox, Enzo; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

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Natural disasters and the green occupational aspirations of adolescents$Andreas F. Buehler, Patrick Lehnert and Harald Pfeifer

Buehler, Andreas F.; Lehnert, Patrick; Pfeifer, Harald - 2026

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Choice architecture in occupational choices

Dell, Madison; Brox, Enzo; Palffy, Patricia; Schilter, … - 2026

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The role of AI use and AI training in school-to-work transitions

Theiler, Roman; Palffy, Patricia; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2026

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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2026

We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for up to ten years after the initial assessment. Exploiting quasi-random class assignments and controlling for other non-cognitive peer characteristics, we find that having...

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Competitive peers: the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

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Who enters the public sector?

Bismarck-Osten, Clara von - 2026

Is the public sector losing the most educated to finance, tech, and consulting? Does it act as a Keynesian employment insurer to the less educated? The data constraints behind the limited evidence on this have recently been overcome for England. The probability of entering the public sector...

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Stephen versus Stephanie? : does gender matter for peer-to-peer career advice

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Lordan, Grace - 2026 - This version: December 2025

Occupational segregation is one of the major causes of the gender pay gap. We probe the possibility that individual beliefs regarding gender stereotypes established in childhood contribute to gendered sorting. Using an experiment with two vignette designs, which was carried out in schools in the...

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The influence of peers’ parental background on university enrollment : the role of education and occupation

Brugnara, Luca; Dottori, Davide; Modena, Francesca; … - 2026

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Stereotypes, awareness, and STEM major choice

De Paola, Maria; Ordine, Patrizia; Rose, Giuseppe - 2025

This study examines whether awareness of implicit gender-science stereotypes influences university enrollment in STEM fields. We designed a randomized controlled trial involving 566 Italian high school seniors, combining surveys with an Implicit Association Test to measure unconscious biases....

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New information,new interests? : impact of an occupation finder on the occupational choices of dual vocational education and training students

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther - 2025

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Emigration prospects, gender-based preferences, and the choice of major

Zubovic, Amela; Caves, Katie - 2025

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Earnings expectations of "first-in-family" university students and their role for major choice

Adler, Katharina; Kosse, Fabian; Nagler, Markus; … - 2025

How do students' earnings expectations differ by being the first in their family to attend university (FiF) and how do they affect field of study choice? We leverage unique survey and administrative data from a German university to document sizable gaps in expected earnings between FiF and...

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Earnings expectations of "first-in family" university students and their role for major choice

Adler, Katharina; Kosse, Fabian; Nagler, Markus; … - 2025

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Earnings expectations of "first-in family" university students and their role for major choice

Adler, Katharina; Kosse, Fabian; Nagler, Markus; … - 2025

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It runs in the family : occupational choice and the allocation of talent

Almgren, Mattias; Kramer, John; Jósef Sigurdsson - 2025

Children tend to choose the same occupations as their parents. We examine the implications of this tendency for talent allocation and intergenerational mobility. Using Swedish data on skills and personality traits, we estimate a general equilibrium Roy model with unequal occupational access...

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Female representation and talent allocation in entrepreneurship : the role of early exposure to entrepreneurs

Mertz, Mikkel; Ronchi, Maddalena; Salvestrini, Viola - 2025

This paper shows that exposure to entrepreneurs during adolescence increases women's entry and performance in entrepreneurship and improves the allocation of talent in the economy. Using population-wide registry data from Denmark, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school, cross-cohort variation in...

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Quantifying the signaling role of education

Kaymak, Barış - 2025

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Levelling the playing field? : SES differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2025

In many countries, subsidies towards higher education and financial aid to students from poorer backgrounds have reduced socio-economic status (SES) gaps in undergraduate study. The increasing importance of graduate studies that are typically more expensive may, however, provide a new avenue for...

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Willingness to compete in dirty competitions

Buser, Thomas; Sangi, Sahar - 2025

Competitive environments often leave room for "dirty" practices such as sabotage, retaliation, or dishonesty. We use an online experiment to document aggregate levels and individual differences in the willingness to engage in dirty competition and in the willingness to enter competitions where...

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Neighbor effects on human capital accumulation through college major choices

Backes, Annika; Kovač, Dejan - 2025

Using the universe of high school and college admissions data in Croatia, we geocoded nearly half a million students' residential addresses to investigate how their college and major choices are influenced by older neighbors and peers. Using an RDD to exploit time and program variation in...

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Heterogeneity, uncertainty and learning : semiparametric identification and estimation

Bunting, Jackson; Diegert, Paul; Maurel, Arnaud - 2025

We provide identification results for a broad class of learning models in which continuous outcomes depend on three types of unobservables: known heterogeneity, initially unknown heterogeneity that may be revealed over time, and transitory uncertainty. We consider a common environment where the...

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Home production and gender gap in structural change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2025

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Gender differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2025

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Gender differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2024

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Gender differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2024

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Early exposure to foreign language training and students' educational trajectories

Strazzeri, Maurizio; Brox, Enzo; Oggenfuss, Chantal; … - 2025

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Labour market expectations and occupational choice : evidence from teaching

Fullard, Joshua - 2025

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Labour market expectations and occupational choice : evidence from teaching

Fullard, Joshua - 2023

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Labour Market Expectations and Occupational Choice : Evidence from Teaching

Fullard, Joshua - 2023

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Labour Market Expectations and Occupational Choice : Evidence from Teaching

Fullard, Joshua - 2023

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Intended college major choice and the inheritance of majors

Brunello, Giorgio; Campo, Francesco; Lodigiani, Elisabetta - 2025

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Intended college major choice and the inheritance of majors

Brunello, Giorgio; Campo, Francesco; Lodigiani, Elisabetta - 2025

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Motherhood and the allocation of talent

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2025

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Motherhood and the allocation of talent

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021

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Motherhood and the Allocation of Talent

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2022

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Der Einfluss von beruflicher Ähnlichkeit und Arbeitsmarktbedingungen auf Berufswechsel : eine exemplarische Analyse von 31 Berufen für den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien

Risius, Paula; Quispe Villalobos, Valeria; Malin, Lydia; … - 2025 - Stand: August 2025

Für die Energiewende werden in unterschiedlichen Berufen Fachkräfte dringend gesucht: Allein in den 31 für die vorliegende Studie betrachteten energierelevanten Berufen konnten im Jahr 2024 knapp 119.000 der insgesamt knapp 185.000 offenen Stellen nicht besetzt werden. Damit liegt die...

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Worker specialization and the consequences of occupational decline

Ek, Simon - 2025

Are workers with poor outside opportunities less responsive and more susceptible to negative demand shifts in routine occupations? To answer this, I create and estimate an occupation specialization index (OSI) using Swedish register data and machine learning tools. It measures the expected...

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