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Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia K. - 2009
harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463675
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Academics vs. Athletics : Career Concerns for NCAA Division I Coaches
Avery, Christopher - 2016
We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess whether these coaches are rewarded for the academic performance of their players in promotion and retention decisions. We find that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456554
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Experimental Estimates of College Coaching on Postsecondary Re-enrollment
Turner, Lesley J.; Gurantz, Oded - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-on-one college coaching improves college attendance and completion outcomes for former low- and middle-income income state aid …,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity … to receive coaching services from InsideTrack, with all communication done remotely via phone or video. Intent …
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Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing
Thursby, Jerry G. - 2000
Historically, commercial use of university research has been viewed in terms of spillovers. Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in technology transfer through licensing as universities attempt to appropriate the returns from faculty research. This change has prompted concerns regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471043
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities
Barham, Bradford L. - 2020
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479212
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Public Universities : The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce
Bound, John - 2019
universities enrolled more out-of-state and international students who pay full fare and increased in-state tuitions, moderating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479895
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Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure : Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents
Kong, Nancy - 2020
This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computational linguistics. Borrowing methods from the literature on second language acquisition, we analyze core linguistic features of 40,949 U.S. applications in three patent categories...
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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Borghans, Lex - 2009
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463432
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Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D
Blume-Kohout, Margaret E. - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of federal extramural research funding on total expenditures for life sciences research and development (R&D) at U.S. universities, to determine whether federal R&D funding spurs funding from non-federal (private and state/local government) sources. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463504
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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities : Evidence from Europe and the U.S
Aghion, Philippe - 2009
We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463797