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The price of preferences

Af Kristian Hedeager Bentsen, Jan Rose Skaksen

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This paper examines the price that individuals pay for choosing fields of study with high consumption value instead of choosing fields of study with higher future earnings. The institutional setting for further education in Denmark allows us to analyze a situation where all individuals included in our sample could have freely chosen fields within humanities and business, where access criteria were very equal fora long period of time. After controlling for a rich set of observable characteristics, including scores from a range of high-school courses, we find that individuals who chose to enroll in humanities gave up roughly 29 % of disposable income 10 years after enrollment for their choice of humanities instead of business.

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Attribut navn	Attribut værdi
Forfatter	Kristian Hedeager Bentsen, Jan Rose Skaksen
Undertitel	The price of preferences
ISBN	978-87-408-3142-9
Serie	Study Paper 123
Indbinding	Paper
Sider	29
Illustrationsgrad	Illustrated
Sprog	English