themselves. We also find that PhD production is negatively related to the total number of students and the share of total BAs …

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 …This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural …

; and (iii) a personal coaching service, in which students are matched with upper-year undergraduate coaches. We find large … positive effects from the coaching program, as coached students realize a 0.3 standard deviation increase in average grades and …Recent studies show that programs offering structured, one-on-one coaching and tutoring tend to have large effects on …

-on-one college coaching improves college attendance and completion outcomes for former low- and middle-income income state aid …,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity … to receive coaching services from InsideTrack, with all communication done remotely via phone or video. Intent …

new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality of entering students in an attempt to distinguish value added from … the quality of incoming students. We then rank programs according to value added. Our results are rather surprising. While … rankings since they do not recruit the very top students. We explore the determinants of our value added and student quality …

This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present … across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …

Twenty-five cohorts of medical students were asked in their first and fourth year of school to estimate contemporaneous … physician income in six different specialties. The students' income estimation errors varied systematically over time and cross … absolute value of the estimation errors was 26 percent of actual income. Students were 35 percent more accurate when estimating …

Economic and Social Problems," that enrolled 400 students, achieved nearly a 50-50 gender balance, and was among the highest … selection - are taught differently. Then, drawing upon students' comments and prior research on effective teaching practices, we … identify elements of the course's approach that appear to underlie its success: connecting the material to students' own …

introductory microeconomics between one semester in which students were randomly assigned into the formats and another semester … when students were allowed to choose their format. In each semester we offered the same course with the sections taught at … effect of format. Students in the compressed format of the randomized arm of the study scored -0.19 standard deviations less …