The Discouraged-Business-Major Hypothesis Revisited: Could Economics Be the Encouraged-Business-Major?

Autor/inn/en	Asarta, Carlos J.; Butters, Roger B.
Titel	The Discouraged-Business-Major Hypothesis Revisited: Could Economics Be the Encouraged-Business-Major?
Quelle	In: Journal of Economic Education, 43 (2012) 1, S.19-32 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0485
DOI	10.1080/00220485.2011.636707
Schlagwörter	Economics Education; Undergraduate Students; Student Characteristics; Ability; Majors (Students); Business Administration Education; College Graduates; Degree Requirements; Bachelors Degrees; Predictor Variables; Nebraska + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftskunde; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Prädiktor
Abstract	The term "Discouraged-Business-Major" (DBM) describes students who become discouraged with the rigorous standards of colleges of business and migrate to colleges of arts and sciences to complete a degree in economics under relaxed requirements (Salemi and Eubanks 1996). Following Salemi and Eubanks, the present authors examine a decade of demographic characteristics and ability measures for every economics and business graduate at a large Midwestern university. They find DBMs, but also note that major selection dynamics are much more complex than originally expected. Finally, they employ a multinomial logit model to estimate the marginal effects of student characteristics on major choice. (Contains 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10