scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of visitors to the ANU Research School’s Economics Program, I estimate this … impact from responses to a survey in which visitors described their research before and after their visit and designated as a …. The results show a highly significant ceteris paribus impact of such visits on the visitor’s subsequent research. Valuing …

How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent … Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in … UK academic research in economics and in many other subjects. But is it possible to design an objective check on, and …

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is …

themselves. Based on publications in academic journals, the central criterion of research evaluation, research output has …The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science … institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if it is based on applied research carried out within the institutes …

an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database project. Students in the award … treatment were offered a congratulatory card from the organization honoring the best performance. The award was purely symbolic … award treatment outperform students in the control treatment by about 12 percent on average. Our results provide strong …

higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …

allocating their time to work and family. Access to long-term informative data allows us to close existing research gaps, and we …

this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …