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Should We Organize? Effects of Faculty Unionism on Academic Compensation
Freeman, Richard B. - 1978
effect of faculty unionism on faculty pay. It compares estimated effects of unionism on compensation from cross … "unobserved characteristics" of schools that are correlated with unionism. The major findings are that: 1. unionism raises faculty … been organized has a stronger effect on pay than the standard 0-1 union dummy variable; 3. unionism raises the fringe …
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Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition
Canes, Brandice J. - 1994
It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
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Monopsony Power in Higher Education : A Tale of Two Tracks
Goolsbee, Austan - 2019
This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly estimating the residual labor supply curves facing individual four-year colleges and universities using school-specific labor demand instruments. The results indicate that schools...
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My Professor Cares : Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement
Carrell, Scott E. - 2020
Despite a growing body of literature that instructors "matter" in higher education, there is virtually no evidence about how their actions influence student outcomes. We provide experimental evidence on the impact of specific faculty behaviors aimed at increasing student success. We test the...
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A Professor Like Me : The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement
Hoffman, Florian - 2007
Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to male or female teachers. In contrast to previous...
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Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction : The Case of Higher Education
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2007
This paper develops an original measure of learning in higher education, based on grades in subsequent courses. Using this measure of learning, this paper shows that student evaluations are positively related to current grades but unrelated to learning once current grades are controlled. It...
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Damsgaard, Erika Farnstrand - 2012
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...
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Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education
De Vlieger, Pieter - 2016
Instructors are a chief input into the higher education production process, yet we know very little about their role in promoting student success. This is in contrast to elementary and secondary schooling, for which ample evidence suggests teacher quality is an important determinant of student...
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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
understanding of trade unionism …
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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States
Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...
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