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on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...
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Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This …' subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …
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signaling research talent to outsiders. Awards should therefore be taken seriously as a means of motivating research that may …
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We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The …
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university …' and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as 'the locus of seeking …
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Assets in the fossil fuel industries are at risk of losing market value due to anticipated breakthroughs in renewable technology and governments stepping up climate policies in the light of the Paris commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. Stranded assets arise due to...
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The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
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regarding research and scaling. It outlines conditions under which VC-backed startups prefer riskier, yet potentially more … presence of VC intensifies research risk among established firms, as their research initiatives are strategic complements to …
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