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Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure categories during the last two decades. We use institutional level panel data and a variety of...
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As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...
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processes calibrated on 11 published papers from leading economics journals. First, we assess the effects of different graphical … results into two decision theoretical criteria adapted from the recent economics literature, we find that using small bins …
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This document summarizes various tips for economics research papers. …
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within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … promotion rates in economics. Furthermore, the progress of women has stalled relative to that in other disciplines in the past …
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We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to …
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to publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics … Review. Implications are discussed. -- citations ; research productivity ; economics journals ; Research Assessment Exercise …
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This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication … in one's own work or in a Comment. Several controversies in empirical economics illustrate how and how not to behave when …
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stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. -- Economics ; happiness ; life …
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This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists … have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology. -- personality psychology ; behavioral economics …
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