"This book examines the properties of career paths of educators in terms of career construction theory. It also explores the factors influencing career choices of educators, career counseling activities, transition from school to work and the factors influencing vocational personality...

Confidence in one's own abilities is often seen as an important determinant of being successful. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a stylized laboratory experiment to investigate the causal...