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Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Card, David Edward - 2001

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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Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?

Guarino, Cassandra M.; Borden, Victor M. H. - 2016

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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Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

Ashenfelter, Orley; Card, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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Tracking When Ranking Matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...

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The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education

Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022

This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...

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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...

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Public Higher Education Costs and College Enrollment

Delaney, Taylor; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2022

How have changes in the costs of enrolling full-time at public two- and four-year colleges affected student decisions about whether and where to enroll in college? Using local differences in the growth of tuition at community colleges and public four-year colleges we study the impact of public...

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High School and Exam Scores: Does Their Predictive Validity for Academic Performance Vary with Programme Selectivity?

Silva, Pedro Luís; Sá, Carla; Biscaia, Ricardo; … - 2022

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past cognitive skills: teacher and national exam scores. By using a nationwide dataset, we look at how the predictive power of teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting...

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Excellence for All? University Honors Programs and Human Capital Formation

Pugatch, Todd; Thompson, Paul N. - 2022

Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate education within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors...

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Study More Tomorrow

Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth; Wilson, Nicholas - 2022

We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer tutoring if their midterm grade falls below a prespecified threshold. The contract carries a financial...

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