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Are professors worth it? The value-added and costs of tutorial instructors

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018

A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...

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Same-sex teacher effects

de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2024

The idea that students benefit from same-sex teachers has motivated policies around the world aimed at reducing gender inequalities. However, we do not know the size or generalizability of such same-sex teacher effects. We fill this gap by conducting a meta-analysis and our own study using data...

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Same-sex role model effects in education

de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...

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The effect of peer gender on major choice

Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2017

This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market outcomes. Women who are randomly assigned to more female peers become less likely to choose male-dominated majors, they end up in jobs where they work fewer hours and their wage...

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The effect of higher-achieving peers on major choices and labor market outcomes

Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021

This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students' major choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to university sections in first-year compulsory courses. We...

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No evidence that siblings' gender affects personality across nine countries

Dudek, Thomas; Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Feld, Jan; Rohrer, … - 2022

Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering 9 countries (the United States, the...

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Evolving absorptive capacity : the mediating role of systematic knowledge management

Dabić, Marina; Vlačić, Ernest; Ramanathan, Usha; … - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 67 (2020) 3, pp. 783-793

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Evaluating R&D projects in regulated utilities : the case of power transmission utilities

Garces, Edwin; Daim, Tugrul U.; Dabić, Marina - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 70 (2023) 2, pp. 533-553

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2020

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2021

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a … foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative innovation effect …

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