Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We
first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender …

ABSTRACT A large literature exploits geographic variation in the concentration of
immigrants to identify their impact on a variety of outcomes. To address the endogeneity of …

Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle
through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and …

This article studies the determinants of college major choice using an experimentally
generated panel of beliefs, obtained by providing students with information on the true …

Nearly a third of the world's rural population does not live near a paved road, and it is widely
believed that this limits their access to economic opportunities. Using a natural experiment …

Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that
education improves the overall quality of life of citizens. However, little is known about the …

We assemble a novel dataset to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative
matching and other marriage market outcomes using the large shock that WWI caused to the …

Since the introduction of the one-child policy in China in 1979, many more boys than girls
have been born, foreshadowing a sizable bride shortage. What do young men unable to find …

This study estimates the effects of the 1970 Ancash earthquake on human capital
accumulation on the affected and subsequent generation, 37 years after the shock, using …