This study investigated whether self‐efficacy influenced students' educational outcomes in
introductory‐level economics courses. First, this study investigated the correlations between …

Underrepresentation of women in economics is documented in many studies. Investigation
of its sources at the undergraduate level is examined through students' decisions to persist …

Using a panel of 159 institutions over 10 years, we investigate the role model effect of
women faculty and quantitative requirements on the female proportion of undergraduate …

Using student transcripts from six institutions over a 23-year timespan, the authors
investigate the movement of students into and out of the economics major. Considerable …

ABSTRACT The Baccalaureate and Beyond study from the National Center for Education
Statistics at the US Department of Education contains a nationally representative set of …

Using student transcript data from eight institutions over 23‐years, we investigate
enrollments in principles of microeconomics to determine characteristics of successful and …

Using undergraduate student records from six large public universities from 1990 to 2003,
the authors analyze the characteristics and performance of students by major in two …

Using data from 11 institutions, the authors investigate enrollments in intermediate
microeconomics to determine characteristics of successful and unsuccessful students and …

The author of this article summarizes which, when, where, and how students take
introductory economics. Among students who began college in 2012, 74 percent never took …

There are many goals an instructor may wish to accomplish in a course on economic
principles. For us one goal should be the education of a generation of sensible and active …