TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schweri, Jürg
AU  - Hartog, Joop
        TI  - Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?
        PY  - 2015/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9120
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9120
        AB  - As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation data to predict educational choices. We surveyed a full cohort of healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who expected a greater return from nursing college (tertiary education) were more likely to enroll in nursing college later on. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the results confirm that subjective wage expectation data are useful in modeling individual choice.
        KW  - subjective expectations
KW  - nursing
KW  - human capital
KW  - healthcare
KW  - fractional regression
KW  - college choice
KW  - training
KW  - wage
        ER  -