. 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 …

The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in … come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we elicit students' intended likelihood of enrolling in higher education under … socioeconomic groups. Our analysis shows that economically-disadvantaged students derive substantially lower value from university …

quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented …In the second part of the paper, we relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. Using data on students …' perceptions about the demand side of the labor market--beliefs about expected attributes of jobs students anticipate being offered …