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economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the … any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in …
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the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …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 …
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Introductory economics courses emphasize opportunity cost, comparative advantage and specialization to show the … comparative advantage. We test students who have been exposed to the typical textbook and classroom presentation of specialization … and trade with real but paradoxical situations where the same goods are both imported and exported by a country. Students …
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It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of … nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study … the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …
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years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …
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where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …
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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 … economics degrees awarded at those institutions. Similarly, faculty size at colleges where a bachelor's is the highest degree …
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This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...
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