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

The rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher …

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 …

Switzerland. Even with wide differences in inflation processes across these countries, there is we find strong evidence that the … maturities. On the other hand, the ability of the term structure to forecast future changes in 1-year interest rates is somewhat …

research rankings of the faculty do not line up with the research quality of their students in many cases …

growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student … than their non-science counterparts. Students with relatively weaker academic preparation are significantly more likely to … leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more …