Expanding Horizons A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Acquisition

Sofia Badini, Esther Gehrke, Friederike Lenel and Claudia Schupp

No 11225, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We implement a randomized controlled trial to investigate whether students in lower-secondary school more effectively acquire information about potential career paths if this information is preceded by a task that allows students to explore their own interests and the career information is presented in personalized order. We find that self-exploration in combination with the personalized display increases students’ information acquisition. Students also read about more diverse career paths and shift their focus from occupations that require university education towards those that require a high-school degree.

Keywords: information acquisition; career guidance; education; field experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D83 D91 I21 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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