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Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015
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 explore how the political attitudes change as the students progress in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346275
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Peer effects and the gender gap in corporate leadership : evidence from MBA students
Hampole, Menaka; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024
within 15 years of graduation. Next, we use the exogenous assignment of students into sections to show that a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050800
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
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Individual attitudes towards immigrants : welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor);  … - 2006
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Does public policy affect attitudes? : evidence from age-based health insurance coverage policies in the United States
Yörük, Barış K. - 2022
The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255849
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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Do differences in citizens’ policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques...
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Speculating on higher order beliefs
Schmidt-Engelbertz, Paul; Vasudevan, Kaushik - 2024
Higher order beliefs - beliefs about others' beliefs - may be important for trading behaviour and asset prices, but have received little systematic empirical examination. We study more than twenty years of evidence from the Robert Shiller Investor Confidence surveys, which directly elicit...
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Do undergraduate majors or Ph.D. students affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 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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An economist's perspective on student loans in the United States
Dynarski, Susan M. - 2015
In this paper, I provide an economic perspective on policy issues related to student debt in the United States. I lay out the economic rationale for government provision of student loans, summarize time trends in student borrowing, describe the US loan market, then turn to topics central to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375677
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Student abilities during the expansion of US education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013
students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223398