An important goal of community colleges is to prepare students for the labor market. But are students aware of the … labor market outcomes in different majors? And how much do students weigh labor market outcomes when choosing a major? In … this study we find that less than 40% of a sample of community college students in California rank broad categories of …

. 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 …

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

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 …

,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 …