How do Young People Choose College Majors?

Claude Montmarquette, Kathleen Cannings and S. Mahseredjian

Cahiers de recherche from Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ

Abstract: Previous studies on the determinants of the choice of college major have assumed a constant probability of sucess across majors or a constant earnings streamacross majors. Our model disregards these two restrictive assumptions in computing an expected earnings variable to explain the probability that student will choose a specific major among four choices of concentrations.

Keywords: EDUCATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 1997
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