Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … that students enter school quite optimistic about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students end up …

observed patterns of interaction. We find that, while much sorting exists at all stages of college, black and white students … friends as randomly assigned roommates of the same race. Further, we find that, in the long-run, white students who are … randomly assigned black roommates have a significantly larger proportion of black friends than white students who are randomly …

not detectable by existing mean-based tests. Beliefs about future income are found to become more accurate as students …

observed patterns of interaction. We find that, while much sorting exists at all stages of college, black and white students … friends as randomly assigned roommates of the same race. Further, we find that, in the long-run, white students who are … randomly assigned black roommates have a significantly larger proportion of black friends than white students who are randomly …

outcomes, knowledge of the causal effect of the most fundamental input in the education production function - students' study …