students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social … programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training … likely to donate than other students and that there is an indoctrination effect for non-majors but not for majors. Women …

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 …

teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using … document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of … two otherwise identical electives can differ only because of heterogeneity in the reporting style of students attending …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students …

the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …

This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three … record attract and select better students. There is no evidence of an independent effect of having a supervisor who is an …

students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization … those students who did a technical track at high school tend to do better in mathematics than those who followed a social … formalism and more economic content. Moreover, students from public schools are predominant in the lower (with social sciences …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …