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Determinants of college major choice : identification using an information experiment

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2011

This paper studies the determinants of college major choice using a unique "information" experiment embedded in a survey. We first ask respondents their self-beliefs - beliefs about their own expected earnings and other major-specific outcomes conditional on various majors, their population...

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University Choice : The Role of Expected Earnings, Non-pecuniary Outcomes, and Financial Constraints

Delavande, Adeline - 2014

We investigate the determinants of students' university choice, with a focus on expected monetary returns, non … of university, and that implementing policies relaxing financial constraints would increase students' average lifetime … that underscores the importance of having data on these elements for understanding university choice in any context …

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Determinants of College Major Choice : Identification Using an Information Experiment

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2013

This paper studies the determinants of college major choice using an experimentally generated panel of beliefs, obtained by providing students with information on the true population distribution of various major-specific characteristics. Students logically revise their beliefs in response to...

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Determinants of College Major Choice : Identification Using an Information Experiment

Wiswall, Matthew - 2011

This paper studies the determinants of college major choice using a unique “information” experiment embedded in a survey. We first ask respondents their self-beliefs - beliefs about their own expected earnings and other major-specific outcomes conditional on various majors, their population...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122806

Measuring Inflation Expectations

Armantier, Olivier; Bruin, Wändi Bruine de; Potter, Simon - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 273-301

To conduct monetary policy, central banks around the world increasingly rely on measures of public inflation expectations. In this article, we review findings from an ongoing initiative at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York aimed at improving the measurement and our understanding of household...

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Personal experiences and expectations about aggregate outcomes

Kuchler, Theresa; Zafar, Basit - 2015

We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic outcomes in housing and labor markets. We exploit variation in locally experienced house prices to show that individuals systematically extrapolate from recent locally experienced...

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The price is right: Updating of inflation expectations in a randomized price information experiment

Armantier, Olivier; Nelson, Scott; Topa, Giorgio; van … - 2012

Understanding the formation of consumer inflation expectations is considered crucial for managing monetary policy. This paper investigates how consumers form and update their inflation expectations using a unique information experiment embedded in a survey. We first elicit respondents'...

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Heterogeneous inflation expectations, learning, and market outcomes

Madeira, Carlos; Zafar, Basit - 2012

Using the panel component of the Michigan Survey of Consumers, we show that individuals, in particular women and ethnic minorities, are highly heterogeneous in their expectations of inflation. We estimate a model of inflation expectations based on learning from experience that also allows for...

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An overview of the survey of consumer expectations

Armantier, Olivier; Topa, Giorgio; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2016

This report presents an overview of the Survey of Consumer Expectations, a new monthly online survey of a rotating panel of household heads. The survey collects timely information on consumers' expectations and decisions on a broad variety of topics, including but not limited to inflation,...

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An overview of the survey of consumer expectations

Armantier, Olivier; Topa, Giorgio; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2016

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