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

-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more …

as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …

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 …

We survey undergraduate students at a large public university to understand the pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors …% chance they will pursue teaching, almost 27% report a nonzero chance of working as a teacher in the future. Students … teaching job). We run a randomized information experiment where we provide students with information on the pecuniary and non …

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 …

We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short … disadvantaged Black youth in Baltimore. We use these data to develop and explore a complementary narrative: students who have faced …

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …