This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long … basic skills apparently led to generally reduced performance by high-achieving students, while an accountability system … other technical subjects. Both types of systems are associated with increased quot;crammingquot; by students in college. The …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … materials) were the same. Counter to the conclusions drawn by a recent U.S. Department of Education meta-analysis of non …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …

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 …

researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of …

-term benefits that are evident in terms of a county's growth and level of private-sector development, its citizens' education levels …