students, and significant differences in student progress due to fields of study. …

The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students … survey students about what their expected earnings would be both in the major they have chosen and in counterfactual majors …. We also elicit students' subjective assessments of their abilities in chosen and counterfactual majors. We estimate a …

profile of their earnings. We show that students' family background is strongly related to the earnings paths of the major … they choose. Students with more educated parents, especially those who have graduate degrees, choose majors with lower …

schools, finding that exposed students were more likely to become teachers by 0.6 percentage points (pp), or 47%. Effects are …

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted … tracks at different schools) to get difference-in-differences (DD) estimates for all students above the admission cutoff …. Second, we use the GT admission rule to get regression discontinuity (RD) estimates for students near the admission cutoff …

"This paper examines the determinants of the choice of field of study by university students using data from the … that these students completed their study and thus represent a pool of high quality individuals. What impact expected post … university students not all completing their studies successfully? Unlike existing studies, we account for the probability that …

College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This …

strategy for students to submit their true preferences. Thus, strategic behaviour is expected. Using the full data set of …