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Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice
Hans Fricke; Jeffrey Grogger; Andreas Steinmayr
发表日期2018
出版者Economics of Education Review
出版年2018
语种英语
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This study investigates how exposure to a field of study influences students’ major choices. If students have incomplete information, exposure potentially helps them to learn about the scope of a field as well as how well the field matches their interest and abilities. We exploit a natural experiment where university students have to write a research paper in business, economics, or law during their first year before they choose a major. Due to oversubscription of business papers, the field of the paper is assigned quasi-randomly. We find that writing in economics raises the probability of majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points. We show further that this effect varies across subfields: the effect is driven by assignment to topics less typical of the public's perception of the field of economics, suggesting students learn through exposure that the field is broader than they thought.

主题Technological Innovations in Education
子主题Choice ; Curriculum and Instruction
URLhttps://cepa.stanford.edu/content/exposure-academic-fields-and-college-major-choice
来源智库Center for Education Policy Analysis (United States)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/491834
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Hans Fricke,Jeffrey Grogger,Andreas Steinmayr. Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice. 2018.
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