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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …

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Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions

O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...

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Social Class and Undergraduate Degree Subject in the UK

Bratti, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

undergraduate level. Using Universities’ Statistical Record data for the period 1981-1991, we find no social class effect on … students’ undergraduate degree subjects enrolled. Our analysis suggests that in a period pre-dating the mass expansion of … higher education, the replacement of student grants with student loans and the introduction of undergraduate student tuition …

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Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism

Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...

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The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools

Cortes, Kalena E.; Bricker, Jesse; Rohlfs, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom learning vary by course subject, and how much attendance in one …

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

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Job Search as a Determinant of Graduate Over-Education: Evidence from Australia

Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study considers the relationship between job search and over-education amongst recent Australian bachelor degree graduates. Using a panel estimation method, we find that using universities' career offices is associated with a reduced probability of over-education (between 3% and 8%)...

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Returns to University Quality in Australia: A Two-Stage Analysis

Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...

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Does Teaching Load Affect Faculty Size?

Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

.D.s grows. Faculty size at Ph.D. granting universities is largely unresponsive to changes in the number of undergraduate …

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The Remuneration of British Academics

Euwals, Rob; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper examines both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination within the UK academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 635 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. In the existing literature, the fact that in many occupations, employees...

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