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Estimating the beliefs of economic a...

Madeira, Carlos Rodrigues.

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Estimating the beliefs of economic agents.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Estimating the beliefs of economic agents./
作者:	Madeira, Carlos Rodrigues.
面頁冊數:	200 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4784.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-12A.
標題:	Economics, General. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3386520
ISBN:	9781109518672

Estimating the beliefs of economic agents.
Madeira, Carlos Rodrigues.

Estimating the beliefs of economic agents. - 200 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4784.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2009.

Decision making under uncertainty involves a personal belief about the nature of the outcomes. Most economic agents, however, have difficulty gathering information about the future. Despite this difficulty, economists tend to base their insights on models that assume completely informed agents.

ISBN: 9781109518672Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Estimating the beliefs of economic agents.
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520 $a This dissertation contributes to the existing literature by studying the expectations of students and their families about the value of education. To achieve this I use both an innovative methodology and new data. Chapters 1 and 2 use a panel survey, the Beginning School Study (1982-2002), with extensive information on the beliefs of a sample of families from the city of Baltimore. I then use this data to show how parents and students update their beliefs on their academic ability and the value of education, from first grade until the end of high school.
520 $a Chapter 1 studies how parents and students form their beliefs about the academic grades of their children. I find that families are biased towards expecting higher grades, especially in the case of black parents and parents with boys. Families' ability to predict future scores improved substantially during middle school and high school, with agents' prediction errors having both a lower bias and a lower variance.
520 $a In Chapter 2 I show that students in elementary school and their parents believe the wage returns to education are much smaller than the ones estimated by labor economists. Families of lower parental education have particularly low expectations of the wage benefits of education. However, as students age, families update their beliefs about the wage returns to education and their predictions become more accurate.
520 $a Graduate studies have become increasingly more important in the American labor market. In Chapter 3 I analyze the expectations of Kellogg MBA students, regarding their future lifetime incomes with and without an MBA degree. I find that MBA students perceive significant income gains and higher returns to work experience from getting an MBA degree.
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