paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

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 … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …

students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social … programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training … likely to donate than other students and that there is an indoctrination effect for non-majors but not for majors. Women …

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 that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using … document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of … two otherwise identical electives can differ only because of heterogeneity in the reporting style of students attending …

setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students …

This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three … record attract and select better students. There is no evidence of an independent effect of having a supervisor who is an …

students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization … those students who did a technical track at high school tend to do better in mathematics than those who followed a social … formalism and more economic content. Moreover, students from public schools are predominant in the lower (with social sciences …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …