<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
![Luke Sibieta](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Luke%20Sibieta%20%20s.jpg?itok=i5W6DH-B)
Research Fellow
Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.
![Person graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/IFS-person-graphic.png?itok=hWCtTSrz)
Alastair Muriel
![Wenchao Jin](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Wenchao_Jin.jpg?itok=Av1leK1Z)
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: 30 June 2024).
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