%0 Report
        %A Badini, Sofia
%A Gehrke, Esther
%A Lenel, Friederike
%A Schupp, Claudia
        %T Expanding Horizons: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Acquisition
        %D 2026
        %8 2026 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18490
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18490
        %X We implement a randomized controlled trial in a low-income context to investigate whether students in lower-secondary school acquire information about potential career paths more effectively if this information is preceded by a task that allows students to explore their own interests and if the career information is ordered by the congruence between the careers and the student’s personality. We find that self-exploration in combination with the personalized display increases student information acquisition. Students also read about more diverse career paths and, low-performing students in particular, shift their focus from occupations that require university education towards those that require a high-school degree and are potentially more achievable.
        %K information acquisition
%K career guidance
%K education
%K field experiment