Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more … established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very …

Cambridge University, where Paley became one of the first women to take the Tripos exam and the first female lecturer in … enforces them, and suggest relevant policy work and areas for future research …

concludes with a discussion of easily-implemented, optimal methods for evaluating teaching …

women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …

multitask model of teaching. The intervention is more scalable and cost effective than most policies aimed at improving teacher …

university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of … society. One sector that is of great interest is the American university, where the share of nonresident aliens in the … complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their …