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retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We compare faculty turnover rates at a large sample of institutions before and after … the number of older faculty over the coming years. The increase is likely to be larger at private research universities …, where a higher fraction of faculty has traditionally remained at work until age 70. …
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This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2012 data from … an online annual performance reporting system for tenured and tenure‐track faculty at two campuses of a large public …, Midwestern university as well as 2014 data from a large national survey of faculty at more than 140 institutions. We find …
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retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We compare faculty turnover rates at a large sample of institutions before and after … the number of older faculty over the coming years. The increase is likely to be larger at private research universities …, where a higher fraction of faculty has traditionally remained at work until age 70. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700906
While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how...
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performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time faculty and staff members at a public university in … the United States, we study the impact of this employee benefit on faculty and staff performance and retention. We focus …
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This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
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This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...
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master's degree may be a liability or an asset depending on the department characteristics. Increasing the number of faculty …
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This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...
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This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of...
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