Determinants of Student Choice of Undergraduate Major Field

Richard Cebula () and Jerry Lopes

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Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants of student choice of under­graduate major field. It argues that this choice depends on a variety of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors. After allowing for the recent trends toward Accounting and Business Administration, the empirical results indicate that earnings differentials among fields and differences in the rate of change in earnings among fields are the most important factors in the student's decision.

Keywords: choice of major; earnings; earnings growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D14 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981-11-02, Revised 1982-02-05
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Published in American Education Research Journal 2.19(1982): pp. 303-312

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