Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324349 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17951
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We run a field experiment in which we provide information to students about job opportunities and hourly wages of occupations they are interested in. The experiment takes place within a widely-used career orientation program in the Netherlands, and involves 28,186 pre-vocational secondary education students in 243 schools over two years. The information improves the accuracy of students' beliefs and leads them to change their preferred occupation to one with better labor market prospects. Administrative data that covers up to four years after the experiment shows that students choose (and remain in) post-secondary education programs with better job opportunities and higher hourly wages as a result of the information treatment.
Subjects: 
field experiment
labor market information
education choice
JEL: 
C93
D83
I26
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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