ADICCIONES, 2014 · VOL. 26 NÚM. 2 · PÁGS. 134-145 Alcohol intensive consumption (AIC) in university students has important clinical and social implications that motivate the need to look into the factors that favor its apparition and consolidation. More concretely, this study assesses the role of impulsivity and the associated expectations about consumption, as well as the possible mediation of...

Presented by Chris J. Foley Research Questions 1. To what extent are student-level characteristics, including high school engagement and expectations for college engagement, related to students’ college engagement? 2. To what extent are institutional characteristics related to institutions’ college engagement means after controlling for student characteristics and high school engagement and e...

We study the three-year impact of a private tuition-free middle school on the academic outcomes of poor students. Several features of the treatment school fit with innovative paradigms that have delivered successful outcomes in poor urban areas. Our research design exploits the excess of applicants over the school capacity and the fact that participants were selected randomly. Specifically, we ...

This study investigates how college students form their expectations on each major and how they choose their majors in relation to their expectations. In particular, we investigate: (i) the relationship between students perceived ability in each field of study and the likelihood of majoring in that field, and (ii) the relationship between students expected major-specific earnings at age 30 and ...

Agents form expectations about the future in many markets, and these expectations drive investment and consumption behavior, inform entry and exit choices, and can even provide direct satisfaction or distress. How agents form expectations is therefore of central interest to economists. This paper reviews several competing theories and then provides empirical evidence about what elements make up...