forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are … variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are … variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are … variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are … variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …

college major choices and expected future earnings. In a sample of high-ability undergraduates, we find that competitiveness … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, are systematically related with expectations about future earnings: Individuals … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences …

college major choices and expected future earnings. In a sample of high ability undergraduates, we find that competitiveness … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive … large “returns" to human capital not only in their own future earnings, but also in a number of other dimensions (such as … future labor supply and potential spouse's earnings). In a recent follow-up survey conducted six years after the initial data …