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Education choices and returns on the labor and marriage markets : evidence from data on subjective expectations
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kaufmann, Katja - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 140 (2017), pp. 35-55
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011923700
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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
competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18 percent of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787489
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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
competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792974
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Preferences and biases in educational choices and labour market expectations : shrinking the black box of gender
Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 604, pp. 2153-2186
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758107
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The heterogeneous effect of information on student performance : evidence from a randomized control trial in Mexico
Avitabile, Ciro; De Hoyos, Rafael E. - In: Journal of development economics 135 (2018), pp. 318-348
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982847
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Gender gaps in early wage expectations
Leibing, Andreas; Peter, Frauke; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022
Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198632
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Gender gaps in early wage expectations
Leibing, Andreas; Peter, Frauke; Waights, Sevrin; … - In: Economics of education review 94 (2023), pp. 1-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014425289
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How skills and parental valuation of education influence human capital acquisition and early labor market return to human capital in Canada
Lehrer, Steven F. - 2019
Using the Youth in Transition Survey we estimate a Roy model with a three dimensional latent factor structure to consider how parental valuation of education, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills influence endogenous schooling decisions and subsequent labour market outcomes in Canada. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183395
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119
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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