Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate … mediator - students who rank high in math are more likely to choose STEM subjects in school and this can partly explain their …

We use large-scale surveys of Chilean college applicants and college students to explore the way students form beliefs … to observed values for past students and follow survey participants forward to see how beliefs relate to matriculation … and dropout outcomes. We find that students have correctly centered but noisy cost expectations, and appear to …

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 …

,000 Italian students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 and followed through college and in the labor market. We …-Teacher assignment group, shows large variation that we document to be as good as random. We find that male students who attended a high …, male students from high school classes with >90% males ended up with lower probability of graduating altogether, and they …