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 …

new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only …This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic … attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a curriculum reform in China, the implementation of which started in 2004 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

students with below average reading skills, emphasizing the need to target interventions toward appropriately skilled students …

with the cultural experiences of minority students. Ethnic studies courses provide a growing but controversial example of … this study, we estimate the causal effects of an ethnic studies curriculum piloted in several San Francisco high schools …. We rely on a “fuzzy” regression discontinuity design based on the fact that several schools assigned students with eighth …

This paper examines the effects of policies that increase the number of students who take the first course in algebra … students. The expanded data make it possible to examine heterogeneity across students in the effect of taking algebra early. We … find negative effects among students in the bottom 60% of the prior achievement distribution. In addition, we find other …