Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine whether negative feedback in the form of relatively low grades in major-related classes explains gender differences in the final majors undergraduates choose. We use unique...

The premise underlying the use of citations data is that higher quality journals generally have a higher number of citations. The impact of citations can be distorted in a number of ways. Journals can, and do, inflate the number of citations through self citation practices, which may be...

The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations....

Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...

Forschungsdaten liegen in Abhängigkeit der Disziplinen in vielfältigen Formen und Formaten vor. Sie sind in allen Disziplinen Teil des wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisprozesses. Als digitales Informationsobjekt sind sie komplex und bislang wenig untersucht. Mit den Möglichkeiten neuer...

Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...

Forschungsdaten liegen in Abhängigkeit der Disziplinen in vielfältigen Formen und Formaten vor. Sie sind in allen Disziplinen Teil des wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisprozesses. Als digitales Informationsobjekt sind sie komplex und bislang wenig untersucht. Mit den Möglichkeiten neuer...

"In der Diskussion um Fachkräftebedarfe/-mangel richtet sich der Fokus häufig auf die sogenannten MINT-Berufe (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik). Diese Berufe gelten gemeinhin als 'Männerberufe'. Mögliche Engpässe können verhindert oder abgemildert werden, wenn...

Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? Such claims from some employers and educators have been widely embraced by mainstream media...

The purpose of this note is to contribute to the emerging common understanding between the natural science, economic and social science perspectives on the 'value' of ecosystems and biodiversity. Given the inherent complexity of nature it is not surprising that the concept of 'value is capable...

The purpose of this note is to contribute to the emerging common understanding between the natural science, economic and social science perspectives on the 'value' of ecosystems and biodiversity. Given the inherent complexity of nature it is not surprising that the concept of 'value is capable...

Wetland ecosystems provide society with a range of valuable ecosystem services. However, wetlands worldwide are experiencing increasing pressure from a number of sources, caused by an interrelated combination of market failure and policy intervention failure. Whatever the cause, the result is...

Most problems related to biodiversity management have an ecological as well as a socio-economic dimension. Consequently, there has been a growing recognition that adequate management recommendations directed at such problems can only be developed if knowledge from ecology, economics and various...