TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Badini, Sofia
AU  - Gehrke, Esther
AU  - Lenel, Friederike
AU  - Schupp, Claudia
        TI  - Expanding Horizons: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Acquisition
        PY  - 2026/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18490
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18490
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - information acquisition
KW  - career guidance
KW  - education
KW  - field experiment
        ER  -