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 …

freshmen students following Georgia’s HOPE scholarship program. How did HOPE affect the selectivity of colleges attended by … Georgia’s freshmen students? Did it induce Georgia’s freshmen students who would have otherwise attended more selective out …

university in the state to students in the top decile of their high school class. We estimate the effect of eligibility for … automatic admissions on college choice and persistence for students in a diverse urban school district. Regression discontinuity …), suggesting that automatic admissions may have little effect on students in the most disadvantaged schools. …

freshmen students following Georgia's HOPE scholarship program. How did HOPE affect the selectivity of colleges attended by … Georgia's freshmen students? Did it induce Georgia's freshmen students who would have otherwise attended more selective out …

other fields - tend to attract proportional representation of students with respect to their parental education levels …

In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …

large sample of first year students at a regional, state university are surveyed to collect individual measures that have … analyze data regarding both types of motivation — extrinsic versus intrinsic — and personality traits.) These students are … effects of students' motivation and personality traits …

students, however it distorts incentives towards educational investments. Using the model at calibrated parameters, we quantify …