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October 2011 (DfE Research Report DFE-RR160)
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Subject and course choices at ages 14 and 16 amongst young people in England: insights from behavioural economics
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Authors: Wenchao (Michelle) Jin, Alastair Muriel and Luke Sibieta

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.

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