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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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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

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Sitting next to a dropout : academic success of students with more educated peers

Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our identification strategy relies on quasi-random variation in the proportion of returning dropouts. The estimated average zero effect of dropouts on first-time students' success...

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The role of standards in eco-innovation : lessons for policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2013

This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost … discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …

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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?

D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...

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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment

Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022

Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...

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The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters : price gouging and post-disaster recovery

Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2016

ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of …

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What crisis? : taking stock of management researchers' experiences with and views of scholarly misconduct

Hoover, Gary A.; Hopp, Christian - 2017

This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence...

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Human ethics and virtues : rethinking the homo-economicus model

Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2017

outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …

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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...

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