Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-16

  Arcidiacono, Peter ^a,b   Hotz, V Joseph ^a,b,c   Kang, Songman ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IZA ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Choice of college major; Subjective expectations

Indexed keywords

CHOICE OF COLLEGE MAJOR; COLLEGE GRADUATES; COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; COUNTERFACTUALS; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; SUBJECTIVE EXPECTATIONS;

ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 81155150186     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.06.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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