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Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic literature documents policy efforts to understand and address these barriers. We review this literature on non-financial...
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Transparency vs. opacity is an important dimension of college admission policy. Colleges may gain useful information from a holistic review of applicants' materials, but in doing so may contribute to uncertainty that discourages potential applicants with poor information. This paper investigates...
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expectation that universities have more incentives to disclose their inventions than corporations for either incentive reasons or …
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for Scientific Information (ISI); the scientific institutions included are the top 110 U.S. research universities; the 12 …
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achieve productive efficiency given differences in the price (salary rate) of faculty across disciplines and variation in … about whether and, if so, how differences in the cost of faculty affect resource allocation at research universities. We … complicated because teaching and research are jointly produced by universities, while they are also substitutes at some margin in …
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is the most prestigious and coveted award in medical research. Anecdotal evidence and related research suggest that receiving it may adversely affect research productivity. We compared the post-Nobel research output of laureates (prize years: 1950-2010)...
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Concern exists that public funding of science is increasingly risk averse. Funders have addressed this concern by soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has been gathered to examine the extent to which such...
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tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33 government-certified high-quality universities known for superior test … partly by high-quality universities improving students' skills, as demonstrated by their performance on Colombia's college … adversely affecting non-recipients, thereby promoting equity and efficiency …
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-1999 as well as 110 top U.S. universities. We find that industrial science builds on past scientific research inside and … outside contribution derives from universities rather than firms; this is especially true when papers are weighted by …, the importance of outside knowledge, especially that of universities, increases from the firm to the industry level. The …
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We examine the influence of faculty patenting activity on the rate, quality, and content of public research outputs in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) to account for the dynamics of self-selection into...
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