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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added: A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools
Akyol, S. Pelin; Frisancho, Verónica; Krishna, Kala M.; … - CESifo - 2013
What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students’ success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671573
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094337
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Withering Academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671696
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Push or Pull? An Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Individual Project Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation
Wolter, Stefan C.; Hübschi, Rémy; Müller, Matthias - CESifo - 2007
This study empirically analyses on the basis of a panel of grant requests to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF. From the results it can be concluded, that the different scientific disciplines react in very different ways to the institutional and financial framework conditions set by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766113
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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?
Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - CESifo - 2008
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - CESifo - 2013
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570052
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - CESifo - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766262