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The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate … convergence in world science and engineering and a falling U.S. share. But the slowdown of U.S. publication rates in the late 1990 …, this has caused a deceleration in the growth of research output in public universities and university-fields falling into …
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university, its staff and students. Part of the effect of universities on growth is mediated through an increased supply of human … university presence is associated with stronger pro-democratic attitudes …
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We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university … competition for research funding. We show that university autonomy and competition are positively correlated with university …
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This paper investigates the drivers of support for market mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social objective. We...
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The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...
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The Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation of private colleges for price-fixing caused the Overlap' group of colleges to discontinue their meetings. DOJ alleged that the meetings enabled the colleges to collude on higher tuition and increase their tuition revenue. The colleges claimed...
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Historically, commercial use of university research has been viewed in terms of spillovers. Recently, there has been a … the nature of university research. We develop an intermediate input model to examine the extent to which the growth in … engage in commercializing university research. We model licensing as a three stage process, each involving multiple inputs …
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Over most of the 20th century successive generations of U.S. children had higher enrollment rates and rising levels of completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid-1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of...
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This paper provides a long-term follow-up of students who participated in the Tennessee STAR experiment. The Tennessee STAR experiment randomly assigned 11,600 elementary school students and their teachers to a small class, regular-size class or regular-size class with a teacher-aide. The...
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