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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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themselves. We also find that PhD production is negatively related to the total number of students and the share of total BAs …
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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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. 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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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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student evaluations arises, in part, because students are unaware of how much they have learned in a course. The paper …
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This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly estimating the residual labor supply curves facing individual four-year colleges and universities using school-specific labor demand instruments. The results indicate that schools...
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in the college algebra course that is required for all BA degree program students. We find substantial variation in …
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