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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. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536082
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Intended college attendance : evidence from an experiment on college returns and cost
Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015
college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376217
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Intended college attendance : evidence from an experiment on college returns and costs
Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015
information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338830
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Information heterogeneity and intended college enrollment
Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2014
intervention, gaps in college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 30 to 50 percent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404579
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Bildung und Qualifikation als Grundlage der technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands : Bericht des Konsortiums "Bildungsindikatoren und Technologische Leistungsfähigkeit"
Leszczensky, Michael (contributor);  … - 2010
Das Ziel des Projekts besteht darin, in Kooperation mit Experten aus weiteren wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen eine integrierte indikatorbasierte Studie zur beruflichen Aus- und Weiterbildung, zur Hochschulbildung, zum gesellschaftlich verfügbaren Bildungsniveau sowie zu den entsprechenden...
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Bildung und Qualifikation als Grundlage der technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands : Bericht des Konsortiums "Bildungsindikatoren und technologische Leistungsfähigkeit"
Leszczensky, Michael; Frietsch, Rainer; Gehrke, Birgit; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003977568
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Bildung und Qualifikation als Grundlage der technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands : Bericht des Konsortiums "Bildungsindikatoren und technologische Leistungsfähigkeit"
Leszczensky, Michael; Frietsch, Rainer; Gehrke, Birgit; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625241
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College major choice and the gender gap
Zafar, Basit (contributor) - 2009
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 gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812568