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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853185
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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, … - 2013
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. Firstly, we take into account the location of universities and include a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748365
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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From … individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of emigration from Nazi Germany, allowing us to estimate the causal effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438356
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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020
. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175828
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Do college anti-plagiarism/cheating policies have teeth in the age of AI? : evidence from the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
The advent of the internet, and more recently of artificial intelligence (AI), has challenged academic and other institutions to ensure ethical practices and reward/promote true merit. The borderless and relatively anonymous nature of the internet creates policing challenges, leading to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444922
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Why academic quality in higher education declines
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 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, but is also associated with higher cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309225
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College curriculum, diverging selectivity, and enrollment expansion
Kaganovič, Michail I.; Su, Xuejuan - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547733
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Testing means-tested aid
Murphy, Richard; Wyness, Gill - 2016
Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of education aid examine its impact on college enrolment. In this paper, we provide evidence on the causal impact of means-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541300
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Should higher education be subsidized more?
Declercq, Koen; Ooghe, Erwin - 2021
Fiscal externalities arise if subsidies to higher education raise future net fiscal revenues. We investigate in which countries fiscal externalities provide a justification for increasing subsidies to higher education. First, we show that the marginal fiscal recovery rate, i.e. the ratio of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652848
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Matching in the dark? : inequalities in student to degree match
Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - 2021
schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607340