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Instructors are a chief input into the higher education production process, yet we know very little about their role in promoting student success. This is in contrast to elementary and secondary schooling, for which ample evidence suggests teacher quality is an important determinant of student...
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. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures …
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54 U.S. research intensive universities. First, we estimate the career preferences of foreign and U.S. STEM students for …
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-to-face interactions between skilled workers who work in different cities. Using a data base listing research paper publication and …
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other factors, those universities whose real research expenditures per faculty from institutional funds are growing the most …
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Adjusted for many other determinants, beauty affects earnings; but does it lead directly to the differences in productivity that we believe generate earnings differences? We take a large sample of student instructional ratings for a group of university professors, acquire six independent...
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for Scientific Information (ISI); the scientific institutions included are the top 110 U.S. research universities; the 12 … basic research conducted in the United States during the last quarter of the 20th century. This research in turn contributes … suggest that knowledge spillovers in basic science research are important, but are circumscribed by field and by intrinsic …
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...
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to own inventions from publicly funded research, whereas in Sweden, the professor privilege gives the university faculty …
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higher outcomes for women also hire more women faculty, facilitate advisor-student contact, provide collegial research …
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