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The Best Business Schools : A Market Based Approach
Tracy, Joseph - 1994
We present a new methodology for ranking business schools. Unlike previous rankings based on subjective survey responses (from CEOs, business school deans, recruiters, or graduates), our approach uses data derived from the labor market for new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality...
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The Impact of High School Curriculum on Confidence, Academic Success, and Mental and Physical Well-Being of University Students
Yu, Han - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic … attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a curriculum reform in China, the implementation of which started in 2004 … new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453144
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment : Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide - 2014
, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …. These changes were often effective: study under the new curriculum is robustly associated with changed views on political …
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Women Helping Women? Role-Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Student in Economics
Neumark, David - 1996
One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring relationships between these students and female faculty members. Increased hiring of female faculty is viewed as one way to promote such mentoring relationships, perhaps because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473105
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The Underrepresentation of Women in Economics : A Study of Undergraduate Economics Students
Dynan, Karen E. - 1995
Although women are underrepresented in the field of economics, many see little need for intervention, arguing that women are inherently less interested in economics, or are less willing or able to get the math skills skills needed to do well in the subject. At the same time, others support...
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Variation in Women’s Success Across PhD Programs in Economics
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2019
We document wide and persistent variation in women's representation and success across graduate programs in economics. Using new data on early career outcomes for recent graduates, including first job placement, publications and promotion, we compare (anonymized) departments on outcomes for...
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Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates who Study Economics : Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard
Bayer, Amanda - 2020
There is widespread concern that economics does not attract as broad or diverse a pool of talent as it could. For example, less than one-third of undergraduates who receive degrees in economics are women, significantly lower than in math or statistics. This article presents a case study of a new...
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Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars
Dupas, Pascaline; Sasser, Alicia; Niederle, Muriel; … - Seminar Dynamics Collective; National Bureau of … - 2021
This paper reports the results of the first systematic attempt at quantitatively measuring the seminar culture within economics and testing whether it is gender neutral. We collected data on every interaction between presenters and their audience in hundreds of research seminars and job market...
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What Can UWE Do for Economics?
Avilova, Tatyana; Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2018
Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge was begun in 2015 as an RCT with 20 treatment schools and...
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