Identity economics and higher education

• Authors: Tomasz Wysocki , Dominik Dziedzic
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The aim of this paper is to propose a hypothesis explaining the rather surprising choices of Polish prospective students, who prefer to study fields that do not entail a high salary in the future over those that increase the likelihood of getting a well-paid job. Our hypothesis says that one of the causes of such decisions is a norm that says that a person who did not study is less worthy than a college graduate. In order to explicate this hypothesis in detail, we use the framework of identity economics.

Keywords

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identity economics; economics of education; higher education; norms

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Econometrics. Ekonometria. Advances in Applied Data Analytics
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3(41)
• Pages: 95-103

Contributors

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Tomasz Wysocki

• Wroclaw University of Economics

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Dominik Dziedzic

• Warsaw School of Economics

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