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

, 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 …

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

. 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 …

We investigate how college students form and update their beliefs about future earnings using a unique "information …" experiment. We provide college students true information about the population distribution of earnings and observe how this … information causes respondents to update their beliefs about their own future earnings. We show that college students are …

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 …

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 …

. 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 …

We investigate the determinants of students' university choice, with a focus on expected monetary returns, non …-specific subjective expectations about labor market and non-pecuniary outcomes, with direct measures of financial constraints and students … determinants. Data on students' choices without financial constraints allow for the out-of-sample validation of the model, which …