sensible beliefs about the outcomes. Students believe that their parents are more likely to approve majors associated with high …At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper … investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are …

sensible beliefs about the outcomes. Students believe that their parents are more likely to approve majors associated with high …At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper … investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors? In other words, whether the majors chosen are …

, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …

college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of … among lower-income and non-college households. We also elicit respondents' intended likelihood of their pre-college age …

information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 … evidence of larger biases among lower-income and non-college households. We also elicit respondents' intended likelihood of … their pre-college-age children attending college, and the likelihood of respondents recommending college for a friend …

Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … that students enter school quite optimistic about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students end up …