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Marangos, John – Education Economics, 2012
This paper uses a relatively large dataset of the stated academic major preferences of economics majors at a relatively large, not highly selective, public university in the USA to identify the "discouraged-business-majors" (DBMs). The DBM hypothesis addresses the phenomenon where students who are screened out of the business curriculum often…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Grade Point Average, Microeconomics, Calculus