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来源类型 | Publication |
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 |
摘要 | 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 |
URL | https://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 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hans Fricke,Jeffrey Grogger,Andreas Steinmayr. Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice. 2018. |
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