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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015
and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college major. The reform that was introduced in …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510504
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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015
and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college major. The reform that was introduced in …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010508574
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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice
Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017
Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same …-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points – equivalent to 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647623
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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice
Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017
Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same …-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points-equivalent to 3.7 native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653629
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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the impact of such programs, and the factors that influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476579
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"A" is the aim?
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016
This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563302
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The Effects of a High School Curriculum Reform on University Enrollment and the Choice of College Major
Goerlitz, Katja - 2015
and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college major. The reform that was introduced in …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023766
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Dual-credit courses and the road to college : experimental evidence from Tennessee
Hemelt, Steven W.; Schwartz, Nathaniel L.; Dynarski, … - 2019
Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee Department of Education, we conduct the first randomized controlled trial of the effects of dual-credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036596
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Does class size matter in postgraduate education?
Gaggero, Alessio; Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2019
The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed Effects models on the population of postgraduate candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118354
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Do STEM students vote?
Bell, D'Wayne; Feng, Jing; Holbein, John B.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
.e., STEM) fields. However, the research supporting this conclusion has faced distinct challenges in terms of data quality. Does … STEM actually decrease the odds that young people will be actively involved in democracy? This paper assesses the … relationship between studying STEM and voting. To do so, we create a dataset of over 23 million students in the U.S. matched to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343350