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The Best Business Schools : A Market Based Approach
Tracy, Joseph - 1994
We present a new methodology for ranking business schools. Unlike previous rankings based on subjective survey responses (from CEOs, business school deans, recruiters, or graduates), our approach uses data derived from the labor market for new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality...
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The Impacts of Same and Opposite Gender Alumni Speakers on Interest in Economics
Patnaik, Arpita; Pauley, Gwyn C.; Venator, Joanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What is the impact of male and female alumni speaker interventions in introductory microeconomics courses on student interest in economics? Using student-level transcript data, we estimate the effect of speakers on future course-taking in models which use untreated lectures as control groups,...
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What Did UWE Do for Economics?
Avilova, Tatyana; Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was...
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The Impact of High School Curriculum on Confidence, Academic Success, and Mental and Physical Well-Being of University Students
Yu, Han - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic … attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a curriculum reform in China, the implementation of which started in 2004 … new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only …
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment : Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide - 2014
, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …. These changes were often effective: study under the new curriculum is robustly associated with changed views on political …
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Empirics on the Origins of Preferences : The Case of College Major and Religiosity
Kimball, Miles S. - 2009
Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using...
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The Making of an Investment Banker : Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
Oyer, Paul - 2006
New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills, it seems likely that any effect of stock returns on MBA placement would be short-lived. In this paper, I use a...
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Making Entrepreneurs : Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
Chioda, Laura; Contreras-Loya, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
75% hard skills and 25% soft skills; the soft skills curriculum has the reverse mix. Using data on 4400 youth from a …
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Demographic Diversity and Economic Research : Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM)...
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