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Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … causes and determinants, we relate expected wages to sorting into majors, industries, and occupations, child-rearing plans …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that resembles … to roughly half a million Euros. Our findings further suggest that expected wages relate to expected asking and …
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This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
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We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that believed returns increase as the...
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students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of … these composition effects for wages. Our main finding is that there is a growing gap between the abilities of high school …
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