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the general differences between universities are smaller compared to, e.g., the USA. I use the University Ranking of the … Quacquarelli Symonds and a revealed preference and acceptance ranking to measure the quality of a university. Both rankings show a …
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university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I … the common knowledge regarding the overall university attractiveness. Results show that the ranking provides more relevant …
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Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to identify the preferences of participants with respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample...
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Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
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Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the conven-tion in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Pro-fessor A, who has been a first author more...
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Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controlling for...
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The nexus between social leisure and life satisfaction is riddled with endogeneity problems. In investigating the causal relationship going from the first to the second variable we start from considering that retirement is an event after which the time investable in (the outside job) relational...
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The primary focus of this research is to study the impact of Foreign Exchange Reserve changes on key economic indicators, namely Inflation and the Exchange Rate of Bangladesh. In addition, the article seeks to illustrate the effects of recent theft from Bangladesh Bank's reserve on Bangladeshi...
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This study estimates the establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in Germany. In addition to the average treatment effect on the treated, we analyse the influence of establishment’s characteristics and economic environment on the magnitude of the effect. We apply a...
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