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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Fricke, Hans - 2015
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 …
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A Roy Model of Social Interactions
Cicala, Steve - 2011
We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with...
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Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends : Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
Lerner, Josh - 2014
identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068338
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Time-Use and Academic Peer Effects in College
Mehta, Nirav - 2018
This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data...
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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
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Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium : Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement
Conley, Timothy Guy - 2015
We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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Following Through on Good Intentions : The Power of Planning Prompts
Milkman, Katherine L. - 2012
We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals' responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial appointments. At four companies, all employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to receive either a control mailing or a treatment mailing. The...
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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending
Levine, Ross - 2019
We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank's headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we exploit shocks to these travel times to evaluate the impact of within bank communication...
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Can Simple Informational Nudges Increase Employee Participation in a 401(K) Plan?
Clark, Robert L. - 2015
We report results from a field experiment in which a randomized subset of newly hired workers at a large financial institution received a flyer containing information about the employer's 401(k) plan and the value of contributions compounding over a career. Younger workers who received the flyer...
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