| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22841 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22841 |
| Shifting College Majors in Response to Advanced Placement Exam Scores | |
| Christopher Avery; Oded Gurantz; Michael Hurwitz; Jonathan Smith | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-11-21 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Mapping continuous raw scores from millions of Advanced Placement examinations onto the 1 to 5 integer scoring scale, we apply a regression discontinuity design to understand how students’ choice of college major is impacted by receiving a higher integer score despite similar exam performance to students who earned a lower integer score. Attaining higher scores increases the probability that a student will major in that exam subject by approximately 5 percent (0.64 percentage points), with some individual exams demonstrating increases in major choice by as much as 30 percent. These direct impacts of a higher score explain approximately 11 percent of the unconditional 64 percent (5.7 percentage points) gap in the probability of majoring in the same subject as the AP exam when attaining a 5 versus a 4. We estimate that a substantial portion of the overall effect is driven by behavioral responses to the positive signal of receiving a higher score. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22841 |
| 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/580515 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christopher Avery,Oded Gurantz,Michael Hurwitz,et al. Shifting College Majors in Response to Advanced Placement Exam Scores. 2016. |
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| w22841.pdf（526KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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