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Exposure to academic fields and college major choice
Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - In: Economics of education review 64 (2018), pp. 199-213
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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119578
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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731970
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Does substance use affect educational outcomes? : there is little evidence that substance use reduces educational
Rees, Daniel I. - 2014
A non-trivial portion of traffic fatalities involve alcohol or illicit drugs. But does the use of alcohol and illegal substances - which is linked to depression, suicide, and criminal activity - also reduce academic performance? Recent studies suggest that drinking alcohol has a negative, if...
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Staying within or leaving the apprenticeship system? : revisions of educational choices in apprenticeship training
Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 6, pp. 539-552
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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High school human capital portfolio and college outcomes
Tchuente, Guy - 2015
This paper assesses the relationship between courses taken in high school and college major choice. Using High School and Beyond survey data, I study the empirical relationship between college performance and different types of courses taken during high school. I find that students sort into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332991
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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 298-328
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201