Opening the black box of college major choice: Evidence from an information intervention

F Ersoy, JD Speer - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025 - Elsevier
This study examines the role of job-related and non-job-related factors in college major
choice. Using a staggered intervention, we provide students information on various aspects …

College-major choice to college-then-major choice: Experimental evidence from Chinese college admissions reforms

L Ma, X Li, Q Zhu, X Ye - Economics of Education Review, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the most important mechanism design policies in college admissions is to let
students choose a college major sequentially (college-then-major choice) or jointly (college …

Linkage between fields of focus in high school career technical education and college majors

Z Xu, B Backes - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the extent to which students obtain postsecondary credentials in the
career technical education (CTE) fields of focus they choose in high school. Using school …

Gender Segregation in Secondary School Course Choices: Socioeconomic Gradients and the Protective Role of School Gender Culture

L Ortega, M Montero, C Canals… - American Educational …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Upper secondary education shapes gender segregation in higher education and the labor
market. This study shows gendered elective course enrollment patterns in Chilean upper …

Design and analysis of cluster randomized trials

W Li, Y **e, D Pham, N Dong, J Spybrook… - Asia Pacific Education …, 2024 - Springer
Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) are commonly used to evaluate the causal effects of
educational interventions, where the entire clusters (eg, schools) are randomly assigned to …

Student major choice as decision-making processes among z generation: Discourse reopening and future research agenda

I Iliashenko, L Mardenova - Economia …, 2023 - riviste.paviauniversitypress.it
This research discovers a “digital-shift” in social life within the scientific research devoted to
the major choice among students who belong to Generation Z, providing a systematic …

Discipline Rankings and University Admission Attractiveness: Quasi-Natural Experimental Evidence from China

T Wang, C Guo - Higher Education Policy, 2024 - Springer
Attracting high-caliber students is a crucial goal in university development, and obtaining
authoritative third-party quality disclosures may be an effective strategy. However, existing …

Characterizing First-Year Biology Majors' Motivations and Perceptions of the Discipline

JL Hsu, L Dudley - Journal of microbiology & biology education, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding why students choose to major in biology provides important insight into the
motivations of biology majors. It is similarly important to investigate how biology majors …