Because students rely on their subjective expectations when choosing a college major, understanding this process of … expectations formation is crucial for education policy recommendations. This paper focuses on how college students form … that contains their subjective expectations about major-specific outcomes. Although students tend to be overconfident about …

), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

Purpose: This paper tries to identify the impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary …