TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kerr, Sari Pekkala
AU  - Pekkarinen, Tuomas
AU  - Sarvimäki, Matti
AU  - Uusitalo, Roope
        TI  - Post-Secondary Education and Information on Labor Market Prospects: A Randomized Field Experiment
        PY  - 2015/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9372
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9372
        AB  - We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post-secondary programs. A third of the students report that the intervention led them to update their beliefs. Experimental estimates suggest that it also affected the application behavior of the least informed students. However, this group of affected students is not sufficiently large for the intervention to have an average impact on applications or enrollment.
        KW  - education
KW  - information
KW  - earnings
KW  - randomized field experiments
        ER  -