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Faculty service loads and gender : are women taking care of the academic family?
Guarino, Cassandra Marie; Borden, Victor M. H. - 2016
This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2012 data from … an online annual performance reporting system for tenured and tenure‐track faculty at two campuses of a large public …, Midwestern university as well as 2014 data from a large national survey of faculty at more than 140 institutions. We find …
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Did the elimination of mandatory retirement affect faculty retirement flows?
Ashenfelter, Orley; Card, David E. - 2001
retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We compare faculty turnover rates at a large sample of institutions before and after … the number of older faculty over the coming years. The increase is likely to be larger at private research universities …, where a higher fraction of faculty has traditionally remained at work until age 70. …
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Does exposure to economics bring new majors to the field? : evidence from a natural experiment
Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2015
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An important component of the first-year curriculum...
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Quality of higher education and the labor market in developing countries : evidence from an education reform in Senegal
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Larouche, Alexandre; Trandafir, … - 2015
While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how...
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Tuition fees as a commitment device
Ketel, Nadine; Linde, Jona; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, … - 2014
This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...
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Door opener or waste of time? : the effects of student internships on labor market outcomes
Saniter, Nils Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2014
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life. We use variation in the introduction and abolishment of mandatory internships at German universities as an instrument for completing an internship while attending university....
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Centralized admission and the student-college match
Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016
Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions are scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions in the Brazilian higher education market. Using rich administrative data,...
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...
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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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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the impact of such programs, and the factors that influence...
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