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How should peer-review panels behave?
Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
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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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …
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Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben
Pöge, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed...
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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005
, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes beyond the estimation of direct effects of textbooks on students' learning …
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Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education?
Webber, Douglas A.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2009
Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure categories during the last two decades. We use institutional level panel data and a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269633
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Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity : Time Preference or Learning Ability?
Munasinghe, Lalith; Sicherman, Nachum - 2004
inherently unobservable sources of heterogeneity – learning ability and workers? inter-temporal preferences (discounting) – both …
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Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2006
Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...
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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008
between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the overall achievement. A cooperative learning approach may instead emerge when … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …
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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268645
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Incentives and services for college achievement: evidence from a randomized trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2007
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...
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