Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Taylor, Corrine H. - In: Economics of Education Review 29 (2010) 2, pp. 187-199
This paper estimates the causal effect of taking a course in quantitative reasoning on students' academic performance and classroom peer-group composition at a liberal arts college. To identify effects, the paper compares the outcomes of otherwise similar students who barely passed a baseline...