This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …

main focus groups of the research are teachers and students from the economic field of education at both university and …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students. …

the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 institutions, we find that students …

students, with a special focus on entrepreneurial ambitions. Research Design & Methods: The study is based on the analysis of … the Hungarian database of the GUESSS (Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students ’Survey), with 9 677 valid answers …. Findings: After graduation, a significant proportion of students would like to work as an employee. The proportion of those …

Auswirkungen auf die Finanzkompetenz. Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften beantworten die "Big Three"-Fragen mit höherer … determinants of financial literacy among students at a German university. An additional goal is the identification of gender … results suggest a rather low level of financial literacy among female students. Additional factors such as a very good …