Showing 1 - 10 of 151
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009577569
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179293
decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233044
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001843506
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001877139
expectations and preferences, I use a unique data set of Northwestern University sophomores that contains the students’ subjective … coursework, finding fulfillment in potential jobs, and gaining the approval of parents are the most important determinants in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812568
, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160750
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420149
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376217
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338830