How do Young People Choose College Majors

By Claude Montmarquette, K. Cannings, S. Mahseredjian. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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The lifetime earnings premia of different majors: Correcting for selection based on cognitive, noncognitive, and unobserved factors (2014, background): “Montmarquette et al. (2002) provides evidence that this assumption is satis ed for applications to college major choice.”
Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification Using an Information Experiment (2015, neutral): “Keywords: college majors; information; uncertainty; risk; subjective expec- tations; marriage market returns; gender di¤erences.”
Education, Occupation and Career Expectations: Determinants of the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates. CEE DP 69. (2006, neutral): “Gender heterogeneity has been traced to differences in educational choice (Chevalier, 2002; Machin and Puhani, 2003; Montmarquette et al., 2002), occupational choice (Baker and Fortin, 2001), career expectations (Swaffield, 2000; Vella, 1994) or even negotiation skills (Balcock and Laschever,…”
Occupation and Gender (2017, background): “…place a higher value on money, several studies have shown that expected earnings or social status is a stronger determinant of college major choices for men relative to women (Freeman and Hirsch, 2008, Montmarquette, Cannings, and Mahseredjian, 2002, Boudarbat and Montmarquette, 2009, Zafar, 2013).”
Education and job match: The relatedness of college major and work (2007, background): “Prior research shows one factor that students should consider is the likelihood that they will be able to finish the degree in their major of choice (Montmarquette et al., 2002).”
Determinants of higher education choices and student satisfaction: the case of Poland (2011, result): “As better chances to find a job was one of the least important factors in a predisposition stage and non-existent in the choice and evaluation stages, it can be assumed that Polish students believe that a university degree does not have a potential to increase their future work opportunities, which ”
Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers. NBER Working Paper No. 17985. (2012, neutral): “Elsevier [49] Montmarquette C, Cannings K, Mahseredjian S.”
A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout (2013, background): “(forthcoming) and Montmarquette et al. (2002).”