Subject and course choices at ages 14 and 16 amongst young people in England: insights from behavioural economics

<p>This report addresses some of the key issues relating to young people's subject and course choices, both from a purely descriptive standpoint - explaining the different choices on offer in England at ages 14 and 16, and documenting the actual decisions made by recent cohorts of young people - and from a more scientific perspective, attempting to point the way towards future experiments that may begin to untangle the cognitive mechanisms through which young people make decisions about their future.</p>