best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

revisiting prior choices, can lead to decision errors. This paper explores the enrollment decisions of Medicare beneficiaries in …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

students?3) Which offer of admission does the student accept?This paper addresses question three. Specifically, we offer an … econometric analysis of the matriculation decisions made by students accepted to Williams College, one of the nation's most highly …

The rapid rise in e-cigarette use rates among high school students in the United States is a significant source of … on the demand for vaping products by high school students. The findings from this study provide strong evidence that … findings could help to inform decision making about how states should allocate scarce public resources …

This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present … across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less …

In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the … of risky decision making …