Can High School Counselors Help the Economics Pipeline?

Melissa Gentry, Jonathan Meer and Danila Serra

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, vol. 113, 462-66

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: A21 H75 I21 I28 J15 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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