Financial Aid, Student Background, and the Choice of First-year College Major
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Heightened stress from concerns about cost of education and employment outlook can affect how students consider and explore their major and career options.
“Concerns about the cost of education and the employment outlook for college students have heightened stress among college students (Guo et al., 2011), which can affect how students consider and explore their major and career options (Stater, 2011).”
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- Authors
- Stater, M.
- Affiliations
- Trinity College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stater, Mark
- Venue
- Eastern Economic Journal
- Published
- 2011-01-24
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 321-343
- ISSN
- 0094-5056 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-4632
- OpenAlex
- W2020098318
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 1.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Eastern Economic Journal (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Pittsburgh
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Keywords
- financial aid, tuition fees, college major choice, first-year students, student background, humanities majors, science majors, public universities
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