ECIN Replication Package for "Nudges to Encourage Female and Minority Students to Enroll in Additional Economics Courses"

This paper replicates studies on alumni visits and email
interventions in Economics Principles courses to address diversity among students
majoring in economics. Using a new, racially diverse sample reflecting national
demographics, we find that two 15-minute visits from female alumnae, mostly
African American, or an encouraging email can increase enrollment in
upper-level economics courses, but combining these interventions is potentially
less effective. Alumnae visits increased upper-level economics course
completion among Black and Latinx students by almost 12 percentage points more
than they increased completion among white students. Our results suggest that alumni
visits can increase racial diversity at a relatively low cost.