Information heterogeneity and intended college enrollment
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- Zachary Bleemer & Basit Zafar, 2015. "Intended college attendance: evidence from an experiment on college returns and costs," Staff Reports 739, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Keywords
college enrollment; college returns and costs; information; subjective expectations;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
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