How Do College Students Form Expectations?

By basit. zafar. Journal of Labor Economics, 2011

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• College Major Choice and the Gender Gap (2013, unknown): “By analyzing revisions in beliefs for the various outcomes across the various majors, Zafar (2011a) does not fi nd systematically different revision patterns 15.”
• Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs (2014, unknown): “20 See Arcidiacono (2004) and Zafar (2011).”
• Are recent college graduates finding good jobs (2014, unknown): “See , for example , Arcidiacono ( 2004 ) and Zafar ( 2011 ) for research on the determinants of and returns to college majors .”
• Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification Using an Information Experiment (2015, unknown): “Comparing the correlations across elds, we see a higher correlations in earnings beliefs across technical or mathematical intensive elds like economics/business and engineering/computer science, compared to economics/business and humanities/arts.”
• The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students’ Major Choice (2017, unknown): “…heterogeneity;  students  tend  to  get more  accurate  over  time  (students  in  their  fourth year offer more accurate predications  than students  in  their  first year)  (Zafar,  2011; Betts, 1996), students from lower income families tend to underestimate the returns to schooling …”
• Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (2012, unknown): “This paper also makes a contribution to a growing body of work that attempts to document agents’ expectations and subjective probabilities (Manski, 2004; Hurd, 2009) and explain their formation (Zafar, 2011).”
• Learning about Academic Ability and the College Dropout Decision (2009, unknown): “10 The simplifying assumption that it is reasonable to assign each student one particular major at a particular point in time is consistent with previous work on college major (Zafar 2011; Arcidiacono et al. 2012).”
• Survey Measurement of Probabilistic Macroeconomic Expectations: Progress and Promise (2017, unknown): “Zafar (2011) elicited expectations of the returns to alternative college majors from a cohort of college sophomores who were re- interviewed a year later.”
• A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment (2017, unknown): “The evidence shows that students have imperfect knowledge of their own ability (Zafar 2011; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner 2012, 2014; Bobba and Frisancho 2014) and are uncertain about their returns to education (Jensen 2010; Attanasio and Kaufmann 2015; Wiswall and Zafar 2015).”
• Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, unknown): “Zafar (2011) finds similar learning dynamics among students at Northwestern University: students tend to be overly optimistic about their major-specific outcomes at first and quickly update their beliefs once they begin to receive grades.”
• A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout (2013, unknown): “…of our data/exercise complements Blass et al. (2010), which represents some of the only other previous work using survey 6Recent work by Wiswall and Zafar (2011) follows this paper in collecting beliefs about major in probabilistic form, with a focus on examining how these beliefs are updated…”
• EVOLUTION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN POST-SECONDARY HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: COLLEGE MAJORS (2014, unknown): “More recent work studies uses expectations data to study college major choices (Zafar 2011; Arcidiacono, Hotz, and Kang 2011; Wiswall and Zafar 2011).”
• Leaving Boys Behind (2015, unknown): “Not having access to the longitudinal MTF data, we cannot address directly the issue of expectations formation by contrast with Stange (2008), Zafar (2011) and Jacob and Wilder (2012).”