Accounting for the rise and fall in the number of economics majors with the discouraged-business-major hypothesis

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Salemi, MK [1 ]
Eubanks, C [1 ]
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[1] RAFTELIS ENVIRONM CONSULTING GRP, CHARLOTTE, NC USA
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10.2307/1183242
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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Between 1978 and 1994, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill experienced a cycle in the number of economics degrees it conferred that was mole pronounced than that experienced nationally. A random sample of UNC economics majors between 1983 and 1994 showed that students screened out of the business curriculum made an economics major their second choice.
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