Self-Perceptions About Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City

Autor: Matteo Bobba, Verónica Frisancho
Přispěvatelé: Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Inter-American Development Bank
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Economics and Econometrics
History
Polymers and Plastics
Overconfidence
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JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C9 - Design of Experiments/C.C9.C93 - Field Experiments
Inference
Academic achievement
Secondary education
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information
Knowledge
and Uncertainty/D.D8.D83 - Search • Learning • Information and Knowledge • Communication • Belief • Unawareness
01 natural sciences
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
010104 statistics & probability
JEL: I - Health
Education
and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I24 - Education and Inequality
Perception
Mexico city
Information
0502 economics and business
Prior probability
Achievement test
0101 mathematics
Business and International Management
B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
050205 econometrics
media_common
Performance feedback
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information
Knowledge
and Uncertainty/D.D8.D80 - General
Applied Mathematics
05 social sciences
Information processing
Subjective expectations
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information
Knowledge
and Uncertainty/D.D8.D84 - Expectations • Speculations
Academic ability
Bayesianupdating
Psychology
Social psychology
Zdroj: Journal of Econometrics
Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, In press, ⟨10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.06.009⟩
ISSN: 1556-5068
0304-4076
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3534493
Popis: National audience; A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from middle to highschool in Mexico City. The analysis takes advantage of rich and longitudinal data on subjective beliefs together with randomized feedback about individual perfor-mance on an achievement test. On average, the performance feedback reduces the relative role of priors on posteriors and shifts substantial probability masstoward the signal. Further evidence reveals that males and high-socioeconomic status students tend to process new information on their own ability more effectively.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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