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The 1995 Nrc Ratings of Doctoral Programs : A Hedonic Model

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Hurst, Peter J. - 2021

We describe how one can use multivariate regression models and data collected by the National Research Council as part of its recent ranking of doctoral programs (Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change) to analyze how measures of program size, faculty seniority,...

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Can a Summer Make a Difference? The Impact of the American Economic Association Summer Program on Minority Student Outcomes

Becker, Charles M. - 2014

In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA's program which, to the best of our...

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Does Classroom Time Matter? a Randomized Field Experiment of Hybrid and Traditional Lecture Formats in Economics

Joyce, Theodore J. - 2014

We test whether students in a hybrid format of introductory microeconomics, which met once per week, performed as well as students in a traditional lecture format of the same class, which met twice per week. We randomized 725 students at a large, urban public university into the two formats, and...

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Learning and Earning : An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions

Riehl, Evan - 2016

learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security … and learning productivities are far from perfectly correlated, with private institutions receiving relatively higher … rankings under earning measures than under learning measures; 2) earning measures are significantly more correlated with …

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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production : Two Centuries of International Evidence

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner - 2012

Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …

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Cramming : The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students

Donovan, Colleen - 2010

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long-term performance. Using exceptional data from a large highly-selective state university, we relate school accountability pressure in high school to a student's university-level grades...

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Citations in Economics : Measurement, Uses and Impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the “Top 5” journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends : Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

Lerner, Josh - 2014

results are consistent with intra-section learning, where the close ties between section-mates lead to insights about the …

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Power and Publications in Chinese Academia

Jia, Ruixue - 2019

In power-oriented societies, academia may not be immune to the influence of power. This paper studies the power-publication link by applying an event-study strategy to a panel dataset of the publication and biographical information of deans of economics schools in Chinese universities. We find...

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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

Kim, E. Han - 2006

We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...

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