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Foreign student share and supply of STEM-designated economics programs

Sie Won Kim

The Journal of Economic Education2025https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2025.2457936article
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Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of U.S. institutions offering STEM-eligible degree programs in economics. The author of this article documents the trends in STEM-degree offerings across degree levels and examines the share of foreign students and other characteristics of institutions offering STEM-eligible programs. Using a difference-in-differences design, the author finds that departments with a proportion of foreign students above the sample median are 6 and 9 percentage points more likely to offer a STEM-eligible degree program at the bachelor’s and master’s levels, respectively, after the STEM designation in 2013. Additionally, the Tobit regression results suggest that early adopters of STEM-eligible programs are associated with a higher share of foreign students, private institutions, and doctoral and research institutions.

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@article{sie2025,
  title        = {{Foreign student share and supply of STEM-designated economics programs}},
  author       = {Sie Won Kim},
  journal      = {The Journal of Economic Education},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2025.2457936},
}

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0.37

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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