Expecting better? how young people form their earnings expectations

Education choices are made based on the expected returns to schooling. If individuals are badly informed, they may make inefficient choices. We directly elicit young people's subjective expectations at the age of 14-15 about earnings under different educational scenarios and find these predict...

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Main Authors: Favara, M, Glewwe, P, Porter, C, Sánchez, A
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Institute of Labour Economics 2021