<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>
Authors
Research Fellow
Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.
Alastair Muriel
Research Associate
Wenchao is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex and an IFS Research Associate.
Report details
- Publisher
- DfE Research Report DFE-RR160
Suggested citation
W, Jin and A, Muriel and L, Sibieta. (2011). Subject and course choices at ages 14 and 16 amongst young people in England: insights from behavioural economics. London: DfE Research Report DFE-RR160. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/subject-and-course-choices-ages-14-and-16-amongst-young-people-england-insights (accessed: 29 April 2024).
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