Beffy, Magali; Fougère, Denis; Maurel, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the determinants of the choice of the major when the length of studies is uncertain, by using a framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to anticipate their future earnings. For that purpose, we use French data coming from the 1992 and 1998...