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. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …
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and adopting a common external tariff. This paper investigates the impact of federation on Australia's internal and … federation itself produced little change in Australia's trade patterns, but that the border effect increased substantially …
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doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries. This paper uses the opening of China in 1978 to estimate …. Our identification strategy relies on both the suddenness of the opening of China and on a key feature of scientific …
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This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These …-participation countries will lose. If non-tariff barriers are reduced more, the impacts will be larger. All effects to China on welfare, trade …, export and import are positive. Comparatively China-TPP and RCEP will yield the highest welfare outcomes for the US in our …
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going beyond WTO disciplines and focused on issues such as regulation and border controls. Though the US, Australia and … other pacific countries are included, China is notable for its exclusion from the process thus far. This paper uses … numerical simulation methods to assess the potential effects of a TPP agreement on China and the other participating countries …
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It is difficult to measure teaching quality at the postsecondary level because students typically quot;self-selectquot; their coursework and their professors. Despite this, student evaluations of professors are widely used in faculty promotion and tenure decisions. We exploit the random...
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Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to male or female teachers. In contrast to previous...
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This paper develops an original measure of learning in higher education, based on grades in subsequent courses. Using this measure of learning, this paper shows that student evaluations are positively related to current grades but unrelated to learning once current grades are controlled. It...
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diffusion and idea spillovers are likely to reach greater distances. This paper uses the construction of China's high speed rail …-authors' productivity rises and more new co-author pairs emerge when secondary cities are connected by bullet train to China's major cities …
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Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show that academics' work hours are distributed more evenly over the week and day, although their total...
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