What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?
分析了一所大学如何决定开设哪些课程，发现课程设置显著影响学生选课，并牺牲学生效用以提高STEM和职业课程的入学率，且大学在反事实情境下会调整课程设置。
This paper empirically analyzes how universities decide which courses to offer and the implications of these decisions for students. At a sample university, course offerings significantly impact student course choices and implicitly sacrifice student utility to increase enrollment in STEM and business and occupational courses. This is because new course sections in these fields have slightly smaller effects on student utility and cost substantially more than new offerings in other fields. The university changes its course offerings in counterfactual scenarios, and ignoring these responses leads to understating the effects of interventions.