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Do Congressional Earmarks Increase Research Output at Universities?

Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

For twenty years universities have been able to bypass peer-reviewed research competition for federal funding and seek …

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The Effects of Congressional Appropriation Committee Membership on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding to Universities

Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

alma mater affiliation on the distribution of research funding to research and doctoral universities in the United States …

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Teacher vs. Learner Responsibility in Management Education

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

A literature review suggested that behavioral changes occur more rapidly when the learner assumed responsibility. Natural learning, an approach to help learners assume responsibility, was compared with the traditional strategy in seven field experiments. It produced more than twice as many...

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The Devil<92>s Advocate Responds to an MBA Student<92>s Claim that Research Harms Learning

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

Snapshots from Hell describes a first-year student<92>s experience in the Stanford Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in 1989. Peter Robinson, formerly a speech writer for President Reagan, tells about his experiences in applying to business schools, living with other MBA students,...</92>

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Improving Learning at Universities: Who is Responsible?

Armstrong, J.S. - EconWPA - 2005

Recently, I published a letter in the Wall Street Journal (Armstrong 2004a) with the basic message that business school education has been losing effectiveness. Most important, students are not learning to do things, such as making an effective oral presentation, writing a persuasive management...

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Are Student Ratings of Instruction Useful?

Armstrong, J.S. - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the lead article^Rs title ^SValidity Concerns and Usefulness of Student Ratings of Instruction^T (Greenwald 1997) in the American Psychologist^R^Rs special section on teacher ratings, the papers did not provide direct evidence on ^Susefulness.^T There is no evidence that the use of...

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The Impact of State Governance Structures on Higher Education Resources and Research Activity

Knott, Jack H.; Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

Universities in the United States reside in regions that have different political cultures and economic conditions … performance, the role of state governance of public universities also is an important factor. Over the past two decades state … governments have given considerable attention to state governance issues, resulting in many universities operating in a more …

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Business School Prestige ^V Research versus Teaching

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

was based on the perceptions of academics, firms, and student candidates). The satisfaction of recent graduates was not … related to a school^Rs prestige (based on the perceptions of academics and business firms). Research productivity of schools …

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University Resourcing: Australia in an International Context

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

In June 2002, the Commission was asked to undertake international comparisons of the resourcing of higher education institutions and the management of those resources. The objective of the study was to collect information for Australia and other countries on university income by source, their...

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The Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions in the Process of Development

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005

This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...

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