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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities : Evidence from Europe and the U.S
Aghion, Philippe - 2010
We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757593
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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities
Avery, Christopher; Glickman, Mark E.; Hoxby, Caroline M.; … - 2006
We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct … extends models used for ranking players in tournaments, such as chess or tennis. When a student makes his matriculation … the information contained in thousands of these wins and losses. Our method produces a ranking that would be difficult for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069303
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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities
Avery, Christopher - 2010
We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct … extends models used for ranking players in tournaments, such as chess or tennis. When a student makes his matriculation … the information contained in thousands of these wins and losses. Our method produces a ranking that would be difficult for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141242
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The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021
This paper shows that although the top ten percent of colleges are substantially more selective now than they were 5 decades ago, most colleges are not more selective. Moreover, at least 50 percent of colleges are substantially less selective now than they were then. This paper demonstrates that...
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