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Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in … the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed … magnitude of the gains are small. Thus, the story is more of constancy than of change, even in the face of changing technology …
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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship …
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limitations of the existing research and the areas in which more work is needed. We find that there is substantial heterogeneity …
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We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and … research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …
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Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in their research. We use a …
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. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and … research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …
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selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …
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