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. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …
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This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present … across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less …
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It is difficult to measure teaching quality at the postsecondary level because students typically quot … and tenure decisions. We exploit the random assignment of college students to professors in a large body of required …. Students of professors who as a group perform well in the initial mathematics course perform significantly worse in follow …
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subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …
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newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …
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. This paper attempts to fill this void using a unique dataset of students at public, four-year colleges in Ohio. The paper …. Because students with alternative instructors may differ systematically from other students, the paper uses two empirical … differ by discipline. Adjuncts and graduate assistants negatively affect students in the humanities while positively …
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survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided one subset of … among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected labor force attachment of their …’ aspirations. We show that T2, as intended, causes students to report a higher importance of parents’ approval of their choices …
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We estimate the career and location preferences of students in U.S. doctoral programs in a major STEM field – chemistry …. Our analysis is based on novel survey conducted in 2017 of 1,605 current Chemistry doctoral students enrolled in the top … 54 U.S. research intensive universities. First, we estimate the career preferences of foreign and U.S. STEM students for …
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Around 1875 the U.S. had none of the world’s leading research universities; today, it accounts for the majority of the top-ranked. Many observers cite events surrounding World War II as the source of this reversal. We present evidence that U.S. research universities had surpassed most...
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Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus on educational achievement gaps by socio-economic status (SES). Using intertemporally linked assessments from NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA, we trace the achievement of U.S. student...
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