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Academic Achievements: Grades versus Duration

Brugiavini, Agar; Carraro, Carlo; Kovacic, Matija - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

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Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia

Durante, Ruben; Labartino, Giovanna; Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of...

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs’ diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing firms across six countries (Brazil, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States). By this measure,...

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Bibliometric Evaluation vs. Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella; Gambardella, Alfonso; Jappelli, Tullio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and informed peer review where reviewers know where the work was published, yield similar results. It would suggest, for instance, that less costly bibliometric evaluation might - at...

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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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Gender and Competition: Evidence from Academic Promotions in France

Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations. Recent work based on experimental evidence indicates that women participate less in or exert lower effort during contests. We exploit the unique features of the promotion system for French academics to look at...

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A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes

Ketzler, Rolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The citation analysis of the research output of the German economic research institutes presented here is based on publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index for the 2000 - 2009 period. The novel feature of the paper is that a count data model quantifies...

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The Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns

Bicakova, Alena; Jurajda, Stepan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

, consistent with higher early fertility in highly `female' fields of study being driven by selection of family-oriented students …

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What is the cost of retaining and attracting exceptional talents? Evidence from the Canada Research Chair program

Courty, Pascal; Sim, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The compensation of a professor who is awarded an internal Canada Research Chair (CRC) increases by 6.3 percent on average in our sample. This gain is large initially but quickly erodes over CRC tenure. The gain is slightly larger for professors who change university to obtain a CRC Chair....

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Participation and Schooling in a Public System of Higher Education

Kelchtermans, Stijn; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

cost of public funds, and there is a substantial redistribution from students to outsiders. …

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