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Info.Econ: Increasing Diversity among Economics Majors

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  • Andrea Chambers
  • Stacy Dickert-Conlin
  • Carey Elder
  • Steven J. Haider
  • Scott Imberman

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We analyze an intervention that provided information from diverse voices about breadth, opportunities, and grade distributions in economics. In 2020, the year of a global pandemic, randomized control trials delivered videos/infographics and letters to students in Michigan State University's introductory classes. We find suggestive evidence, due to large standard errors, that the video treatment differentially increases the intentions of female and underrepresented minority (URM) students to take additional courses and major in economics. The video treatment increased the probability of URM students' self-reported chances of taking another economics course by 6 percentage points, 11 percent above the baseline, relative to the control group.

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  • Andrea Chambers & Stacy Dickert-Conlin & Carey Elder & Steven J. Haider & Scott Imberman, 2021. "Info.Econ: Increasing Diversity among Economics Majors," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 111, pages 133-137, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:111:y:2021:p:133-37
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20211026
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    JEL classification:

    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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