-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more …

, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students’ levels of overconfidence, and preferences for …

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for …

. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility … students' perceptions about the types of jobs that would be offered to them conditional on their college major choices, we … relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. We find that students perceive jobs offered to humanities majors to …

. 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 …