Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279359 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10608
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day workshop designed to support adolescents in developing occupational aspirations increased educational investments. We document substantial heterogeneity in treatment effects by baseline student performance. While the workshop increased schooling efforts of high-performing students, treated low-performing students reduced their educational investments. We develop a simple model that explains why an information intervention can affect educational aspirations and investments in opposing directions.
Subjects: 
aspirations
career guidance
education
field experiment
JEL: 
C93
D83
D90
I21
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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