Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification using an Information Experiment

DOI10.1093/RESTUD/RDU044zbMath1405.91132OpenAlexW3125230084MaRDI QIDQ4610727

Basit Zafar, Matthew Wiswall

Publication date: 23 January 2019

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdu044

zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintyinformationsubjective expectationscollege majors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Experimental studies (91A90)

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