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The Evolution of Talent Allocation into Academia : Institution-Building and Graduates' Choices during Japan's Industrialization

Hiraiwa, Takuya; Braginskij, Sergej V.; Agarwal, Rajshree - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Higher technical-education institutions play an important role in training industrial scientists and engineers and generating new technologies. How well they perform this role, however, depends on their ability to recruit and retain talented faculty who have alternative options in industry;...

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Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2010

We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. Our identification strategy relies on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. We find...

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Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States

Bound, John - 2010

Time to completion of the baccalaureate degree has increased markedly in the United States over the last three decades, even as the wage premium for college graduates has continued to rise. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 and the National...

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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...

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Educational Mismatch Among Ph.D.s : Determinants and Consequences

Bender, Keith A. - 2006

Using the Survey of Doctoral Recipients, the magnitude and consequences of job mismatch are estimated for Ph.D.s in science. Approximately one-sixth of academics and nearly one-half of nonacademics report some degree of mismatch. The influence of job mismatch is estimated for three job outcomes:...

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I present evidence that these dynamic effects are present and powerful … to the minimum wage is small on impact and grows dramatically over time. To verify my theory's mechanisms, I additionally … theory and my empirical results on the skill premium). On the basis of these theoretical and empirical results, I conclude …

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Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2003

Scientific research has come to dominate many American universities. Even with growing external support, increasingly the costs of scientific research are being funded out of internal university funds. Our paper explains why this is occuring, presents estimates of the magnitudes of start-up cost...

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The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

Adams, James D. - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U.S. schools during 1981-1999. Faculty employment grows at 0.6 percent per year, compared with growth of 4.9 percent in industrial researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is...

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Productivity in higher education

Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.); Stange, Kevin M. (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2019

Introduction / Caroline M. Hoxby and Kevin Stange -- What Healthcare Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher Education / Douglas Staiger -- The Productivity of U.S. Postsecondary Institutions / Caroline M. Hoxby -- Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect...

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Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates

Kennan, John - 2015

In the U.S. there are large differences across States in the extent to which college education is subsidized, and there are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are apparently motivated in part by the perceived benefits...

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