| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21130 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21130 |
| Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a natural Experiment. | |
| Hans Fricke; Jeffrey Grogger; Andreas Steinmayr | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-04 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. |
| 主题 | Other ; General, Teaching ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21130 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578805 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hans Fricke,Jeffrey Grogger,Andreas Steinmayr. Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a natural Experiment.. 2015. |
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