Can students predict starting salaries? Yes!

Dinand Webbink; Joop Hartog

doi:10.1016/S0272-7757(03)00080-3

Can students predict starting salaries? Yes!

Dinand Webbink
, Joop Hartog^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Amsterdam
CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

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We use Dutch panel data in which students have been asked to state their expected starting salary and confront these with realisations four years later. Both level and structure of expectations and realisations are remarkably close: we barely find systematic under- or overestimation effects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	103-113
Number of pages	11
Journal	Economics of Education Review
Volume	23
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-7757(03)00080-3
Publication status	Published - Apr 2004
Externally published	Yes

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