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

collected from students who entered the treatment and 50 control departments during a 15 year period that spanned the start of …

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 …

track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …