-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best … assign, on average, lower grades and conjectured that female students exhibit stronger aversion to low grades, hence their … in the choices of disciplines are directly driven by differences in preferences toward fields and pecuniary as well as …

profile of their earnings. We show that students' family background is strongly related to the earnings paths of the major … they choose. Students with more educated parents, especially those who have graduate degrees, choose majors with lower …

students to generally exhibit stronger "sensitivity" to grades. We examine student persistence in a wide spectrum of academic … in the underlying field preferences. In other words, it is a weaker preference for a field of study that is likely to … make students more responsive to grades received in it, rather than the other way around as is commonly suggested. …

schools on students' choice of college major and early career outcomes. Utilizing rich longitudinal data from Maryland, we … course increases students' likelihood of declaring a CS major by 10 percentage points and receiving a CS BA degree by 5 … percentage points. Additionally, access to CS coursework raises students' likelihood of being employed and early career earnings …

significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students … Academy in which students are randomly assigned to certain courses either during or after the semester in which they are … required to select their college major. We find that when students are assigned to a course in the same semester as they select …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …