as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The …

-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more … interest in economics? Using student-level transcript data, we estimate the effect of speakers on future course-taking in …

recent economics research on prominent ideas in moral psychology. First, the theory that morality is ultimately economically … politico-economic outcomes influence each other if they engage with research in economics …

Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals … Economics degree than non-enrollees (a plausible lower bound given negative selection into enrollment on math skills and major … college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

own students' social network and information on developmental risks associated with social exclusion. Using friendship …