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 …

significantly correlated with transfer productivity …

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

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 …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

Aggregate data show a large and decades-long decline in construction sector productivity. This decline in such a large … sector has had a material effect on secular productivity growth for the economy as a whole. Prior work has focused on the … role of potential measurement problems in construction, particularly output deflators in the measurement of productivity …