Future wages, tastes or perceived ability? How Italian students view their choice of the college major | Giorgio Brunello (University of Padova)
FBK-IRVAPP is pleased to invite you to the following seminar: Future wages, tastes or perceived ability? How Italian students view their choice of the college major.
With the participation of Giorgio Brunello (University of Padova, IZA, CESifo, ROA, SEP-LUISS, HEDG, NETSPAR)
Abstract
This paper looks at the expectations of Italian high school students who are facing in the near future the choice of college major. We investigate whether monetary returns (expected wages at 30 or 40) play an important role, and whether this role is more important than individual preferences and self-perceived ability. We use a nationally representative sample of 4100+ students from 106 academic high schools (lyceums) and an identification strategy that exploits the variation across majors for each student. In preliminary findings, we find that self-perceived ability and preferences matter more than expected wages in the choice of major, suggesting that policies providing additional information about future wages are unlikely to significantly affect future choices.
The seminar is held in English.
Relatori
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Giorgio Brunello - Relatore ospiteUniversity of PadovaGiorgio Brunello is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova. He is research fellow of IZA Bonn, CESifo Munich, NETSPAR and ROA Maastricht, the School of Political Economy, Luiss, Rome and a member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Venice. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Osaka, Japan, and has taught at Osaka, Venice, Udine and Padua, and held teaching positions at Deakin Melbourne, Tbilisi ISER and the Lancaster School of Management and Economics.
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