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What the students for fair admissions cases reveal about racial preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...

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The long-run impacts of banning affirmative action in US higher education

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2024

This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we use a difference-in-differences framework to compare the...

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Citations in economics : measurement, uses and impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the "Top 5" journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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Does teaching load affect faculty size?

Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2009

Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal 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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Changing faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States

Zhang, Liang; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Liu, Xiangmin - 2015

We use panel data models to examine variations and changes in faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The share of part-time faculty among total faculty has continued to grow during the last two decades, while the share of full-time lecturers and...

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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - 2014

This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM...

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Why do women leave science and engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...

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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

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Student flows and migration : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2005

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of …

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Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Hemelt, Steven W. (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...

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