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 …

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 …

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 …

composition of students enrolled in both undergraduate and graduate programs. Using administrative data from a large, diverse … of TA assignments, which occur after students enroll in a course, and we estimate models with both class and student … fixed effects. Results show a positive and significant increase in course grades when students are assigned TAs of a similar …

interviews with faculty and former students from five programs higher and lower relative outcomes. We find that departments with …

We test whether students in a hybrid format of introductory microeconomics, which met once per week, performed as well … as students in a traditional lecture format of the same class, which met twice per week. We randomized 725 students at a … percent. Two experienced professors taught one section of each format, and students in both formats had access to the same …

environment. This study assesses these hypotheses by examining factors that influence undergraduate students' decisions to become … economics majors using a survey of students in the introductory economics course at Harvard University as well as data on an … entire class of students from Harvard's registrar. We find that although women in the introductory economics course at …

One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring … relationships between these students and female faculty members. Increased hiring of female faculty is viewed as one way to promote … may be for female graduate students to have female faculty serve as dissertation chairs. The evidence in this paper …