Investment in Education Under Disappointment Aversion
10 Pages Posted: 7 Nov 2016
Date Written: November 2016
Abstract
This paper develops a model of risky investment in education under disappointment aversion, modeled as loss aversion around one's endogenous expectation. The model shows that disappointment aversion reduces the optimal investment in education for lower ability people and increases it for higher ability people, thereby magnifying the investment gap between them generated by the riskiness of education. Policies aimed at in influencing students' expectations can reduce early dropout.
Keywords: education, risk, disappointment aversion, endogeneous reference points
JEL Classification: D03, D81, I21
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Anderberg, Dan and Cerrone, Claudia and Cerrone, Claudia, Investment in Education Under Disappointment Aversion (November 2016). MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2016/16, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2865573 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2865573
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