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We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
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Many countries mandate affirmative action in university admissions for traditionally disadvantaged groups. Little is … in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …
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, for which we study migration after one university suddenly gained the IIT designation; and alumni networks, using … information on the location of IIT alumni in U.S. computer science departments …
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Cambridge University, where Paley became one of the first women to take the Tripos exam and the first female lecturer in …
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priority publication system in science appears to distribute information more rapidly than the patent system, although other …
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Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling … localized these impacts are; this has implications for understanding how quickly information about these jobs diffuses. We use … on Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) center location and founding dates. Using school fixed effects, we …
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This paper studies the economics behind the investment in information technologies (IT) by U.S. commercial banks in the …' dealings with information across various lending activities. Investment in communication IT is shown to be associated more with … improving banks' ability of soft information production and transmission, while investment in software IT helps enhance banks …
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Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to …
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In Fall 2014, Wellesley College began mandating pass/fail grading for courses taken by first-year, first-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice and performance, using a...
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We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level …, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences …
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