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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - 2014
evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low … level of education are increasingly sorting into internally homogenous marriages. When looking within the group of college …
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Estimating Students' Valuation for College Experiences
Aucejo, Esteban; French, Jacob; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we elicit students' intended likelihood of enrolling in higher education under …
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Estimating students' valuation for college experiences
Aucejo, Esteban; French, Jacob; Zafar, Basit - In: Journal of public economics 224 (2023), pp. 1-29
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Double majors : one for me, one for the parents?
Zafar, Basit - 2010
At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are substitutes or complements. Since students use both...
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Double majors : one for me, one for the parents?
Zafar, Basit - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 50 (2012) 2, pp. 287-308
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160750
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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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Determinants of college major choice : identification using an information experiment
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - In: The review of economic studies 82 (2015) 2, pp. 791-824
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346132
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Preferences and biases in educational choices and labor market expectations : shrinking the black box of gender
Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2013
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787489