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 …

We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two … assignment of students to teaching classes. We find that a one standard deviation increase in class-size results in a 0 … lower income students. Also, the effects of class composition in terms of gender and ability appear to be inverse U …

-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their … could influence dropout. Our simulations show that students who perform poorly tend to learn that staying in school is not …

less advantaged students. …