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Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
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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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We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
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may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are …
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Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...
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How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500324
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002824
How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167206
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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We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a … study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …
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