The (Perceived) Returns to Education and the Demand for Schooling
研究发现多米尼加共和国八年级男生对中学教育回报的感知极低，而实际回报很高；向学生提供真实回报信息后，其后续四年平均多上0.20-0.35年学。
Economists emphasize the link between market returns to education and investments in schooling. Though many studies estimate these returns with earnings data, it is the perceived returns that affect schooling decisions, and these perceptions may be inaccurate. Using survey data for eighth-grade boys in the Dominican Republic, we find that the perceived returns to secondary school are extremely low, despite high measured returns. Students at randomly selected schools given information on the higher measured returns completed on average 0.20-0.35 more years of school over the next four years than those who were not. (c) 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..