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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 …

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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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Empirics on the Origins of Preferences : The Case of College Major and Religiosity

Kimball, Miles S. - 2009

Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using...

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The Making of an Investment Banker : Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income

Oyer, Paul - 2006

New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills, it seems likely that any effect of stock returns on MBA placement would be short-lived. In this paper, I use a...

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Making Entrepreneurs : Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills

Chioda, Laura; Contreras-Loya, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

75% hard skills and 25% soft skills; the soft skills curriculum has the reverse mix. Using data on 4400 youth from a …

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Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?

Chandra, Amitabh; Dalton, Maurice; Staiger, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Hospitals play a key role in patient outcomes and spending, but efforts to improve their quality are hindered because we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used quality indicators, such as mortality, readmissions, inpatient...

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Bayesian Performance Evaluation

Baks, Klaas - 1999

This paper proposes a Bayesian method of performance evaluation for investment managers. We begin with a flexible set of prior beliefs that can be elicited without any reference to probability distributions or their parameters. We then combine these prior beliefs with a general multi-factor...

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Offshore Hedge Funds : Survival and Performance 1989-1995

Brown, Stephen J. - 1997

We examine the performance of the offshore hedge fund industry over the period 1989 through 1995 using a database that includes defunct as well as currently operating funds. The industry is characterized by high attrition rates of funds and little evidence of differential manager skill. We...

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