This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to anticipate their future earnings. For that purpose … suggests that expected earnings have a statistically significant but quantitatively small impact on the allocation of students …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …

academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a … Language Learners in the student population for students between fourth and eighth grade over the period from 1999 to 2006 and … the potential effects of the presence of these students on the level of achievement in math and reading for native …