Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals

DOI10.1016/J.JECONOM.2011.06.002MaRDI QIDQ738090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz, Songman Kang

Publication date 15 August 2016

Published in Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

subjective expectationschoice of college major

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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