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Can High School Counselors Help the Economics Pipeline?

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  • Melissa Gentry
  • Jonathan Meer
  • Danila Serra

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We evaluate the impact of an intervention aimed at informing high school counselors about the field of economics, with the aim of attracting a more diverse student population into the major. Our study involves 234 Texas high schools that send a large number of students to Texas A&M University. Half of the schools were randomly selected and invited to send a guidance counselor to an in-person informational counselor workshop. While the intervention did not significantly increase applications into the major in the full student population, it significantly increased the economics applications of top-performing women and underrepresented minority students.

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  • Melissa Gentry & Jonathan Meer & Danila Serra, 2023. "Can High School Counselors Help the Economics Pipeline?," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 113, pages 462-466, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:113:y:2023:p:462-66
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20231121
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    JEL classification:

    • A21 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Pre-college
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • 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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