We evaluate the effectiveness of small high school reform in the country’s largest school district, New York City. Using a rich administrative dataset for multiple cohorts of students, we estimate a model of school outcomes using instrumental variables with multiple types of endogenous school...

This paper studies the determinants of college major choice using a unique information experiment embedded in a survey. We first ask respondents their self beliefs, population beliefs, as well as their subjective beliefs. After eliciting these baseline beliefs, we provide students with...

Over the past 40 years, the level of human capital investments has changed substantially for men and women. Changes in the intensive margin of college major selection have been also been substantial, as the number of graduates in humanities, social science, and teaching has declined, and the...