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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 optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022

with the postulated social welfare criterion. Utilitarianism redistributes only between individuals with unequal fecundity … information and in order to solve for the incentive problem, utilitarianism recommends also to either tax or subsidize ART …

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The limits to moral erosion in markets : social norms and the replacement excuse

Bartling, Björn; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2017

This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor will step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. We study experimentally whether people...

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A fairness justification of utilitarianism

Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2016

critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the …

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Optimal utilitarian taxation and horizontal equity

Jordahl, Henrik; Micheletto, Luca - 2003

We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...

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Infinite population utilitarian criteria

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …

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The malleability of undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergenerational justice

Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2000

Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has … allocation must involve discounting, and (2) that undiscounted utilitarianism subjects the present generation to heavy demands …-nologies) that undiscounted utilitarianism is so malleable that any efficient and non-decreasing allocation can be the unique optimum …

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Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020

This paper studies the design of the optimal linear taxation of bequests when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependence. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests resulted from...

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