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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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Self-assessment : the role of the social environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...

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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...

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Limited self-knowledge and survey response behavior

Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philippe - 2021

develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about … characteristics increases in self-knowledge and that the variance for a given characteristic over time is non-monotonic in self-knowledge …. Importantly, the ratio of these variances identifies an individual’s level of self-knowledge, i.e. the latter can be inferred from …

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