TY - JOUR T1 - Major Malfunction: A Field Experiment Correcting Undergraduates’ Beliefs about Salaries JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour DO - 10.3368/jhr.56.3.0317-8599R2 SP - 0317-8599R2 AU - John J. Conlon Y1 - 2019/09/16 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/09/10/jhr.56.3.0317-8599R2.abstract N2 - I test, in a field experiment at a flagship state university in the US, whether providing college students salary information can affect their choices of major and classes. I find that undergraduates are substantially misinformed about mean salaries by major. On average, students in my sample underestimate mean salaries, but there is also large heterogeneity in beliefs across individuals. I also find that providing information to correct these errors has a large impact on students’ choices; students in the treatment group were nine percentage points (16%) more likely to major in a field about which they received information. ER -