We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …

We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …

Uncertainty about future income plays a conceptually important role in college decisions. Unfortunately, characterizing … how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at college entrance and how quickly this uncertainty is resolved has … describing one's beliefs about future earnings at an ideal time - immediately before students began their first year courses. We …

We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …

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 …