High School Human Capital Portfolio and College Outcomes
研究了高中课程组合的多样化程度与大学专业选择及表现的关系，发现两者呈U型关系，且增加一门定量课程可使选择STEM专业的概率提高4个百分点。
This paper assesses the relationship between courses taken in high school and college major choice. It considers individuals as holding a portfolio of relative human capital rates that may be either similar to those in their major—specialized—or different from those in their major—diversified. Using High School and Beyond survey data, I find a U-shaped relationship between the diversification of the high school courses portfolio and college performance. Policy experiments, using a structural model, suggest that taking an additional quantitative course in high school increases the probability that a college student chooses a STEM major by 4 percentage points.