Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?

This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. To address endogeneity, we explore the variation in study counseling prac...

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Autores principales: Borghans, Lex, Golsteyn, Bart H. H., Stenberg, Anders
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4686924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145378
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description This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. To address endogeneity, we explore the variation in study counseling practices between schools as an instrumental variable (IV). Following careful scrutiny of the validity of the IV, our results indicate a significant and positive influence of study counseling on the quality of educational choice, foremost among males and those with low educated parents. The overall result is stable across a number of robustness checks.
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spelling pubmed-46869242016-01-07 Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice? Borghans, Lex Golsteyn, Bart H. H. Stenberg, Anders PLoS One Research Article This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. To address endogeneity, we explore the variation in study counseling practices between schools as an instrumental variable (IV). Following careful scrutiny of the validity of the IV, our results indicate a significant and positive influence of study counseling on the quality of educational choice, foremost among males and those with low educated parents. The overall result is stable across a number of robustness checks. Public Library of Science 2015-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4686924/ /pubmed/26692388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145378 Text en © 2015 Borghans et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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