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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536082
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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family
Wiswall, Matthew - 2017
earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968273
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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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Determinants of college major choice: Identification using an information experiment
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2011
major choice, with which we estimate the relative importance of earnings and earnings uncertainty on the choice of college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287092
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Belief updating among college students: Evidence from experimental variation in information
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287138
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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations : Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Reuben, Ernesto - 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/10013076510
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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471012
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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/10010328926
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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/10010333639