. 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 …

quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented … 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 if they were to complete particular majors--we find that …

’ aspirations. We show that T2, as intended, causes students to report a higher importance of parents’ approval of their choices … survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided one subset of … with this information along with a prime that made their parents more salient (T2). We find that expectations of working …

per week. This heterogeneity often followed existing socioeconomic divides; lower-income students are 55% more likely to …,500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal … impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects across many dimensions …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …