This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrollment intentions and realized enrollment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six month after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrollment intentions ...
Economists consider personality traits to be stable, particularly throughout adulthood.However, evidence from psychological studies suggests that the stability assumption maynot always be valid, as personality traits can respond to certain life events. Our paperanalyzes whether and to what extent personality traits are malleable over a time spanof eight years for a sample of working individuals. Furthermore, ...