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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …

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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality

Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - 2014

inequality, but these price effects are partly mitigated by increases in college attendance and completion rates among women. …

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Is there still an added-worker effect?

Juhn, Chinhui (contributor); Potter, Simon M. (contributor) - 2007

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State investment in higher education: effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2020 - Revised September 2020

from the National Student Clearinghouse. We overcome identification concerns related to the endogeneity of state …

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How does for-profit college attendance affect student loans, defaults, and earnings?

Armona, Luis; Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2017

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly selective public...

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College major choice and the gender gap

Zafar, Basit (contributor) - 2009

Males and females are markedly different in their choice of college major. Two main reasons have been suggested for the gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying...

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How do college students form expectations?

Zafir, Basit - 2009

Because students rely on their subjective expectations when choosing a college major, understanding this process of expectations formation is crucial for education policy recommendations. This paper focuses on how college students form expectations about various major-specific outcomes. I...

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Determinants of college major choice : identification using an information experiment

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2011

; uncertainty ; risk ; subjective expectations ; marriage market returns ; gender differences …

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Credit supply and the rise in college tuition : evidence from the expansion in federal student aid programs

Lucca, David O.; Nadauld, Taylor D.; Shen, Karen - 2015

When students fund their education through loans, changes in student borrowing and tuition are interlinked. Higher tuition costs raise loan demand, but loan supply also affects equilibrium tuition costs - for example, by relaxing students' funding constraints. To resolve this simultaneity...

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Intended college attendance : evidence from an experiment on college returns and costs

Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015

Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the United States have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a potential explanation for these...

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