Expanding Horizons: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Acquisition

42 Pages Posted: 5 Jul 2024

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Sofia Badini

Wageningen University and Research (WUR)

Esther Gehrke

Wageningen University

Friederike Lenel

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Claudia Schupp

Technical University Munich

Abstract

We implement a randomized controlled trial to investigate whether students in lower-secondary school more effectively acquire information about potential careerpaths if this information is preceded by a task that allows students to explore their own interests and the career information is presented in personalized order. We find thatself-exploration in combination with the personalized display increases students’ information acquisition. Students also read about more diverse career paths and shift theirfocus from occupations that require university education towards those that require a high-school degree.

Keywords: Information Acquisition, Career guidance, education, Field experiment

Suggested Citation

Badini, Sofia and Gehrke, Esther and Lenel, Friederike and Schupp, Claudia, Expanding Horizons: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Acquisition. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4885369 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4885369

Sofia Badini

Wageningen University and Research (WUR) ( email )

Hollandseweg 1
Wageningen, 6706KN
Netherlands

Esther Gehrke (Contact Author)

Wageningen University ( email )

P.O. Box 47
6700 AA
Netherlands

Friederike Lenel

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

No Address Available

Claudia Schupp

Technical University Munich ( email )

Munich
Germany

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