Accounting for the Rise and Fall in the Number of Economics Majors with the Discouraged-Business-Major Hypothesis
Between 1978 and 1994, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill experienced a cycle in the number of economics degrees it conferred that was more pronounced than that experienced nationally. A random sample of UNC economics majors between 1983 and 1994 showed that students screened out of the business curriculum made an economics major their second choice.
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1996
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Authors: | Salemi, Michael K. ; Eubanks, Carlie |
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The Journal of Economic Education. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0022-0485. - Vol. 27.1996, 4, p. 350-361
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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