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ERIC Number: ED653487
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-May
Pages: 48
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Answering the Call: How Changes to the Salience of Job Characteristics Affects College Students' Decisions. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-956
Carly D. Robinson; Katharine Meyer; Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury; Amirpasha Zandieh; Susanna Loeb
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
College students make job decisions without complete information. As a result, they may rely on misleading heuristics ("interesting jobs pay badly") and pursue options misaligned with their goals. We test whether highlighting job characteristics changes decision making. We find increasing the salience of a job's monetary benefits increases the likelihood college students apply by 196%. In contrast, emphasizing prosocial, career, or social benefits has no effect, despite students identifying these benefits as primary motivators for applying. The study highlights the detrimental incongruencies in students' decision making alongside a simple strategy for recruiting college students to jobs that offer enriching experiences.
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Smith Richardson Foundation; Arnold Ventures
Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: Michigan
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