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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines
Meier, Volker - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are … differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training … quality is tailored to the individual need, and a uniform quality system being politically determined. The former yields a …
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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion
Kaganovich, Michael - 2016
We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
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College Expansion and Curriculum Choice
Kaganovich, Michael - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...
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Academic Achievements : Grades versus Duration
Brugiavini, Agar - 2015
This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set of independent variables contains information on...
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Does Distance Matter? Tuition Fees and Enrollment of First-Year Students at German Public Universities
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2021
We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....
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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education
Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordstrom Skans, Oskar - 2021
This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...
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The Role of Colleges within the Higher Education Sector
Eckwert, Bernhard - 2018
Over the past decades the college sectors in the higher education systems of many Western countries have expanded their capacities massively. This happened even though colleges have been at a competitive disadvantage with universities which are publicly subsidized, while colleges must...
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Does the Field of Study Influence Students' Political Attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Bjoern; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021
We investigate whether the field of study influences university students’ political attitudes. To disentangle self-selection from learning effects, we first investigate whether the fields of study chosen by the incoming students correlate with their political attitudes. In a second step we...
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Do Undergraduate Majors or Ph.D. Students Affect Faculty Size?
Becker, William E. - 2010
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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Do Undergraduate Majors or Ph.D. Students Affect Faculty Size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - CESifo - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572517