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of students pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Sweden and the United States. The framework … attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. -- Justice theory ; fairness ; CEO compensation … ; factorial survey method ; MBA students ; gender ; inequality ; Gini coefficient ; Atkinson measure ; Theil's inequality measures …
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we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …-estimate their predicted test score. However, females, white and working class students have less inflated view of themselves. Self …
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Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …
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controlling for student absences in teacher evaluation systems' value-added models is a relatively inexpensive way to increase …
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Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) have been suggested as one possible cause for low representation of women among academic economists. While econometric analyses using control variables certainly report that SETs can be influenced by the gender of both teacher and student, such studies may...
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This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to … the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in …
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document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of … teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using … two otherwise identical electives can differ only because of heterogeneity in the reporting style of students attending …
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of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the … experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …
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