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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

instructional expenditure categories influence graduation and first-year persistence rates of undergraduate students … marginal effects are higher for students at institutions with lower entrance test scores and higher Pell Grant expenditures per …

skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided instruction score 0.17 of a standard deviation higher on pre …-algebra/algebra tests than students randomly assigned to traditional instruction. We hypothesize that the effectiveness arises from … increased individualized instruction as the effects appear larger for students in larger classes and in classes with high …

to test whether textbook consumers are forward-looking. The data strongly support the view that students are forward … students buy their textbooks, they correctly take into account the probability that they will not be able to resell their books … suggest that students are sufficiently forward-looking that publishers could not raise revenues by accelerating current …