| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23333 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23333 |
| The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students\u2019 Major Choice | |
| Rachel Baker; Eric Bettinger; Brian Jacob; Ioana Marinescu | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-04-24 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | An important goal of community colleges is to prepare students for the labor market. But are students aware of the labor market outcomes in different majors? And how much do students weigh labor market outcomes when choosing a major? In this study we find that less than 40% of a sample of community college students in California rank broad categories of majors accurately in terms of labor market outcomes. However, students believe that salaries are 13 percent higher than they actually are, on average, and students underestimate the probability of being employed by almost 25 percent. We find that the main determinants of major choice are beliefs about course enjoyment and grades, but expected labor market outcomes also matter. Experimental estimates of the impact of expected labor market outcomes are larger than OLS estimates and show that a 1% increase in salary is associated with a 1.4 to 1.8% increase in the probability of choosing a specific category of majors. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23333 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581007 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rachel Baker,Eric Bettinger,Brian Jacob,et al. The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students\u2019 Major Choice. 2017. |
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| w23333.pdf（1195KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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