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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family

Wiswall, Matthew - 2016

. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

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Is it All Worth it? The Experiences of New Phds on the Job Market, 2007-2010

McFall, Brooke Helppie; Murray-Close, Marta; Willis, … - 2021

This paper describes the job market experiences of new PhD economists, 2007-10. Using information from PhD programs' job candidate websites and original surveys, the authors present information about job candidates' characteristics, preferences and expectations; how job candidates fared at each...

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Eliciting Student Expectations of the Returns to Schooling

Dominitz, Jeff; Manski, Charles F. - 2021

) survey eliciting from high school students and college undergraduates their expectations of the income they would earn if …

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Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints

Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2010

In this paper we analyze the link between people's "subjective" expectations of returns to schooling and their decision to invest into schooling. We use data from a household survey on Mexican junior and senior high school graduates that elicits their own and their parents' beliefs about future...

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Parental Beliefs About Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children

Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2019

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time investments, material investments and school quality, as...

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(Un)Informed College and Major Choice : Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Hastings, Justine S. - 2015

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 …

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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations Using Subjective Expectations Data

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2014

We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...

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Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2010

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 …

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations : Evidence from a Survey

Aucejo, Esteban - 2020

,500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal … impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects across many dimensions …. Due to COVID-19: 13% of students have delayed graduation, 40% lost a job, internship, or a job offer, and 29% expect to …

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Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-College Periods : New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations

Crossley, Thomas F.; Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; … - 2022

not detectable by existing mean-based tests. Beliefs about future income are found to become more accurate as students …

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