majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …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 …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …

insufficient evidence to blame SETs for a gender imbalance in Economics. …

Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics … faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph … economics degrees awarded at those institutions. In contrast, faculty size at colleges where a bachelor's is the highest degree …

on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning … efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance and of continuous preparation of the material. …

the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 institutions, we find that students …

programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training …A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics … students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social …

Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …