We investigate whether the field of study influences university students' political attitudes. To disentangle self …-selection from learning effects, we first investigate whether the fields of study chosen by the incoming students correlate with … their political attitudes. In a second step we explore how the political attitudes change as the students progress in their …

An important goal of community colleges is to prepare students for the labor market. But are students aware of the … labor market outcomes in different majors? And how much do students weigh labor market outcomes when choosing a major? In … this study we find that less than 40% of a sample of community college students in California rank broad categories of …

students to generally exhibit stronger "sensitivity" to grades. We examine student persistence in a wide spectrum of academic … make students more responsive to grades received in it, rather than the other way around as is commonly suggested. …

An important goal of community colleges is to prepare students for the labor market. But are students aware of the … labor market outcomes in different majors? And how much do students weigh labor market outcomes when choosing a major? In … this study we find that less than 40% of a sample of community college students in California rank broad categories of …