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Information, perceived returns and college major choices
Autoři: Kudashvili, Nikoloz ; Todua, Gega
Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok: 2022
Jazyk: eng
Edice: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, svazek: 717
Abstrakt: Students may hold inaccurate beliefs about earnings and employment opportunities when making their education decisions. This paper analyzes the effects of information provision on student’s intended and actual college major choices in Georgia. Secondary school students in our experiment systematically overestimated the earnings and unemployment rates of college graduates. We find that 10 percent more students who received information on actual earnings and unemployment changed their actual college major choices than others. The changes in their majors are partly driven by differences in the perceived and actual unemployment rates, whereas the earning differences do not appear to play a role. We also estimate spillover effects on students who do not receive information directly, and show that they matter, but only for older students who are closer to high school graduation. Importantly, we find that the immediate changes in the intended choices are not linked to the final major choices, suggesting that measuring the effects of information on immediately expressed intentions may not be sufficient to understand how information affects actual real-life decisions. We find that both direct and indirect information provision have sizable effects on student college major choices.
Klíčová slova: college major; perceived earnings; perceived unemployment
Číslo projektu: GBP402/12/G130 (CEP)
Poskytovatel projektu: GA ČR
Instituce: Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR (web)
Informace o dostupnosti dokumentu: Dokument je dostupný na externích webových stránkách.
Externí umístění souboru: https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp717.pdf
Původní záznam: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331356
Trvalý odkaz NUŠL: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-508583
Záznam je zařazen do těchto sbírek:
Věda a výzkum > AV ČR > Národohospodářský ústav
Zprávy > Výzkumné zprávy
Autoři: Kudashvili, Nikoloz ; Todua, Gega
Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok: 2022
Jazyk: eng
Edice: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, svazek: 717
Abstrakt: Students may hold inaccurate beliefs about earnings and employment opportunities when making their education decisions. This paper analyzes the effects of information provision on student’s intended and actual college major choices in Georgia. Secondary school students in our experiment systematically overestimated the earnings and unemployment rates of college graduates. We find that 10 percent more students who received information on actual earnings and unemployment changed their actual college major choices than others. The changes in their majors are partly driven by differences in the perceived and actual unemployment rates, whereas the earning differences do not appear to play a role. We also estimate spillover effects on students who do not receive information directly, and show that they matter, but only for older students who are closer to high school graduation. Importantly, we find that the immediate changes in the intended choices are not linked to the final major choices, suggesting that measuring the effects of information on immediately expressed intentions may not be sufficient to understand how information affects actual real-life decisions. We find that both direct and indirect information provision have sizable effects on student college major choices.
Klíčová slova: college major; perceived earnings; perceived unemployment
Číslo projektu: GBP402/12/G130 (CEP)
Poskytovatel projektu: GA ČR
Instituce: Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR (web)
Informace o dostupnosti dokumentu: Dokument je dostupný na externích webových stránkách.
Externí umístění souboru: https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp717.pdf
Původní záznam: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331356
Trvalý odkaz NUŠL: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-508583
Záznam je zařazen do těchto sbírek:
Věda a výzkum > AV ČR > Národohospodářský ústav
Zprávy > Výzkumné zprávy
Záznam vytvořen dne 2022-09-28, naposledy upraven 2023-12-06.