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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family
Wiswall, Matthew - 2017
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968273
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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family
Wiswall, Matthew - 2016
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984781
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Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family
Wiswall, Matthew - 2016
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456136
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Determinants of College Major Choice : Identification Using an Information Experiment
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2012
these baseline beliefs, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179487
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Determinants of College Major Choice : Identification Using an Information Experiment
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2013
, obtained by providing students with information on the true population distribution of various major-specific characteristics …. Students logically revise their beliefs in response to the information, and their subjective beliefs about future major choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042735
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College Majors
Patnaik, Arpita; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2022
This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender, race, and family background. We then review the existing research in six key areas: expected earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094630
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Determinants of College Major Choice : Identification Using an Information Experiment
Wiswall, Matthew - 2011
, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122806
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Measuring Test Measurement Error : A General Approach
Boyd, Donald - 2012
the total test measurement error that can be applied when one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107477
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The role of heterogeneous risk preferences, discount rates, and earnings expectations in college major choice
Patnaik, Arpita; Venator, Joanna; Wiswall, Matthew; … - In: Journal of econometrics 231 (2022) 1, pp. 98-122
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441972
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Differences in education and earnings across ethnic groups in Guatemala
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 37 (1997) 4, pp. 809-821
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001337162