Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Insler, Rahman, and Smith (with ungated earlier version here) use data from the United States Naval Academy, and find that peers influence students into selecting different academic paths than they would have chosen independently, and that social learning, rather than social utility, drives this outcome
- On a similar note, Murat (open access) examines the impact of host-country citizenship on immigrant students' choice of academic majors at an Italian university, and finds that obtaining citizenship reduces the likelihood of choosing math-related disciplines, this effect is more pronounced among women, and these gaps are larger among students from more gender-equal countries
- Charles, Kortt, and Harmes (open access) present a detailed analysis of what economics education is currently taught at Australian universities
- Miragaya-Casillas, Aguayo-Estremera, and Ruiz-Villaverde (open access) conduct a longitudinal study of self-and other-interested behaviour in university students following a standard microeconomics course, and find no evidence of an indoctrination effect from the study of microeconomics among business or law students
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