quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented …In the second part of the paper, we relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. Using data on students …' perceptions about the demand side of the labor market--beliefs about expected attributes of jobs students anticipate being offered …

these baseline beliefs, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics …

, obtained by providing students with information on the true population distribution of various major-specific characteristics …. Students logically revise their beliefs in response to the information, and their subjective beliefs about future major choice …

existing research in six key areas: expected earnings and ability sorting, learning, subjective expectations, non …

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

experimental approach to identify gender discrimination by randomly matching 2,836 male and female students pursuing bachelor …

survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided one subset of … in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected labor force attachment of their female peers …’ aspirations. We show that T2, as intended, causes students to report a higher importance of parents’ approval of their choices …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …

survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided one subset of … among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected labor force attachment of their …’ aspirations. We show that T2, as intended, causes students to report a higher importance of parents’ approval of their choices …

We study a unique grading policy at a large US public university allowing students to mask their letter grades into a … "Pass", after having observed their original grade. Using administrative transcript records, we find that female students … are substantially less likely to mask their grades than male students, even after accounting for differences in grades …