A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout

By Ralph Stinebrickner, Todd R. Stinebrickner. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Are recent college graduates finding good jobs (2014, neutral): “While high unemployment among recent college graduates has attracted considerable attention from policymakers and the public alike, there is also growing concern that recent graduates are finding themselves underemployed—that is, working in jobs that do not require a college degree.2 This 2 See, for”
The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School: Determinants and Wage Effects (2015, neutral): “Webber (2014) controls for personality traits that are associated with labor market success.”
A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment (2017, background): “The evidence shows that students have imperfect knowledge of their own ability (Zafar 2011; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner 2012, 2014; Bobba and Frisancho 2014) and are uncertain about their returns to education (Jensen 2010; Attanasio and Kaufmann 2015; Wiswall and Zafar 2015).”
Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family (2016, neutral): “As they progress through their college education, students likely learn about the labor market or about their own ability (Zafar 2011; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner 2012, 2014).”
Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs (2014, neutral): “We then combine this information 16 See Greenstone and Looney (2011).”
Even Einstein Struggled: Effects of Learning About Great Scientists’ Struggles on High School Students’ Motivation to Learn Science (2016, background): “…requires exceptional ability (H. Hong & Lin-Siegler, 2012; Safdar, 2013; Shumow & Schmidt, 2014; R. Stinebrickner & Stinebrickner, 2008; T. R. Stinebrickner & Stinebrickner, 2011, 2013), and (b) the inevitable repeated failures involved while designing scientific experiments (Shumow &…”
Parents’ Beliefs about Their Children’s Academic Ability: Implications for Educational Investments (2019, neutral): “6This builds on prior studies that use observational data to show that students’ beliefs about their own abilities predict their decisions, such as college major choice or college dropout (Chevalier et al., 2009; Arcidiacono et al., 2012; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner, 2012, 2014).”
The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses (2016, background): “…among STEM majors may be attributable to low average grades typical of the sciences that may discourage students (Byars-Winston, Estrada, Howard, Davis, & Zalapa, 2010; Stinebrickner & Stinebrickner, 2013) and, for women, to the lack of role models that sustain motivation to succeed in STEM fields.”
Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, neutral): “8See e.g. Arcidiacono et al. (2012), Attanasio and Kaufmann (2009), and Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2014).”