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Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 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...

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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?

Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …

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Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Griffith, Rachel; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate … find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream (supplier) industries have opposite effects on … measures of technology intensity, with alternative estimation strategies, and with or without controlling for a number of firm …

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Math matters: education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners'...

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Models

Marti, Maria Saez - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

I construct a theory of cultural transmission in which culture acquisition takes place in two stages, first in the family where parents transmit their own culture, and later in society where children are exposed to a wider set of cultural models. The role of models is to provide information...

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Should I stay or should I go? An institutional approach to brain drain

Cassar, Lea; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

This paper suggests that institutional factors which reward social networks at the expenses of productivity can play an important role in explaining brain drain. The effects of social networks on brain drain are analyzed in a decision theory framework with asymmetric information. We distinguish...

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Optimal grading

Zubrickas, Robertas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

Assuming that teachers are concerned with human capital formation and students - with ability signaling, in this paper we model a teacher-student relationship as an agency problem with conflicting interests. In our model, the teacher elicits effort from the student rewarding for it with a grade,...

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Humankapital, politischer Wandel und langfristige Wirtschaftsentwickung

Doepke, Matthias - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

Seit Mitte der achtziger Jahre hat die neue Wachstumstheorie verstärkt Aufmerksamkeit auf Humankapital als eine Quelle des Wirtschaftswachstums gelenkt. Neuere empirische Ergebnisse weisen allerdings darauf hin, dass Bildungsinvestitionen nur geringe soziale Externalitäten erzeugen und dass...

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Peers and Culture.

Saez-Marti, Maria; Sjögren, Anna - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

We analyze the evolution of culture when parents socialize children to the cultural variants that maximize child lifetime utility. Parents invest in cultural transmission taking into account that children are also influenced by peers. We model the influence of peers by assuming that children...

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Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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