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The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

Adams, James D. - 2013

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U … researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is 1.4-6.7 percent and is higher in private universities. Productivity growth per … teacher is 0.8-1.1 percent and is higher in public universities. Growth in research productivity within universities exceeds …

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Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four-Year Success

Carrell, Scott E. - 2016

significantly correlated with transfer productivity …

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Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education

De Vlieger, Pieter - 2017

course-specific teaching experience. We explore this issue in the context of the University of Phoenix, a large for …-person classes, but is still substantial for online courses. Effectiveness grows modestly with course-specific teaching experience … effective postsecondary instructors may be a key, yet underdeveloped, tool for improving institutional productivity …

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Do College Instructors Matter? The Effects of Adjuncts and Graduate Assistants on Students' Interests and Success

Bettinger, Eric; Long, Bridget - 2021

instructors outside of the traditional full-time, Ph.D.-trained model. Nearly 43 percent of all teaching faculty were part-time in …

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The Returns to College(S) : Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education

Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman, Brent - 2023

Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking high school, college, and earnings registries spanning the state...

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Test Scores and Self-Selection of Higher Education : College Attendance Versus College Completion

Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - 2021

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint discrete-continuous utility maximization model of college attendance and college completion. The paper is motivated by the possibility that test scores are poor predictors of...

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Sex and Science : How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap

Carrell, Scott E. - 2009

Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to obtain a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and comprise only 25 percent of the STEM workforce. This paper begins to shed light on this issue by...

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Earning Your Cap : A Comprehensive Analysis of the University of Texas System's Coordinated Admissions Program

Andrews, Rodney - 2017

The competitive application process is the traditional path to gain access to selective public universities. There is little research on alternative pathways to gain access to selective public universities. In this manuscript, we use the fuzzy regression discontinuity design to study the impact...

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Why is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education

Hemelt, Steven W. - 2018

expenditures over the past fifteen years while others saw increases. Fourth, increases in class size and teaching loads alongside a …

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Early Admissions at Selective Colleges

Avery, Christopher; Levin, Jonathan - 2021

Early admissions is widely used by selective colleges and universities. We identify some basic facts about early admissions policies, including the admissions advantage enjoyed by early applicants and patterns in application behavior, and propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts....

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