Can High School Counselors Help the Economics Pipeline? Academic Article

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.

authors

• Serra, Danila

published proceedings

• AEA Papers and Proceedings

altmetric score

• 6.9

author list (cited authors)

• Gentry, M., Meer, J., & Serra, D.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Gentry, Melissa||Meer, Jonathan||Serra, Danila

publication date

• May 2023

publisher

• American Economic Association  Publisher

published in

• American Economic Association. Papers and Proceedings  Journal

keywords

• 38 Economics
• 3801 Applied Economics
• Pediatric

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1257/pandp.20231121

start page

• 462

end page

• 466

volume

• 113

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231121