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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …

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

-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more …

new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality of entering students in an attempt to distinguish value added from … the quality of incoming students. We then rank programs according to value added. Our results are rather surprising. While … rankings since they do not recruit the very top students. We explore the determinants of our value added and student quality …

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 …

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