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Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …

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Trade-offs in choosing a college major

Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2023

Recent empirical analyses reveal substantial differences in the choices of college majors between demographic and socio-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best documented and salient are the differences...

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Disruptive peers and academic performance : shortand long-term outcomes

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of...

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College expansion and curriculum choice

Kaganovič, Michail I.; Su, Xuejuan - 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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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …

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Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests : evidence from the GRE test

Schlosser, Analia; Neeman, Zvika; Attali, Yigal - 2019

We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...

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Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment : the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns

Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017

To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...

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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,...

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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019

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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