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Social networks and the process of "globalization"
Duernecker, Georg; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2012
We propose a stylised dynamic model to understand the role of social networks in the phenomenon we call "globalization." This term refers to the process by which even agents who are geographically far apart come to interact, thus being able to overcome what would otherwise be a fast saturation...
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Do opportunities for low-income students at top colleges promote academic success? : evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga program
Penney, Jeffrey; Lehrer, Steven F.; Bernal, Gloria L.; … - 2023 - Version October 16, 2023
In 2014, the government of Colombia launched a unique meanstested and merit-based scholarship program called Ser Pilo Paga. We examine the effects of this scholarship on student performance on the country's university exit exam and other educational outcomes. Exploiting thresholds for...
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The consequences of academic match between students and colleges
Dillon, Eleanor Wiske; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2016
support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …
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Achievement rank affects performance and major choices in college
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …
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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …
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Creative destruction of the university
Leja, Krzysztof; Nagucka, Emilia - 2013 - This version 13/07/2013
Authors take the issue of change in the modern university. Assuming that the objective of the university is, in addition to the mass education, training the elite of intellectual entrepreneurs (Kwiatkowski, 2000; Kwiatkowski, Sadlak, 2003) - prospective leaders of the knowledge-based society, it is...
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Positive management of the university
Leja, Krzysztof - 2015 - This version 16/11/2015
The prevailing view held at contemporary Polish universities is that their main goal is to achieve effects measured by indicators, which applies to each element of their mission: education, research and the third mission, whereas the means to accomplish this goal consists of increasing the...
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The future of the university? : the voice of young Polish scholars
Kola, Anna M.; Leja, Krzysztof - 2016
Changes of universities should not be a result of administrators' and university managers' decisions (as a top-down approach), but of initiatives from the academic community. It is a kind of third way, which goes beyond the liberal discourse of the capitalist, who want to turn universities into...
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A dataset on knowledge creation and patenting by European Higher Education Institutions (KC-HEI)
Parteka, Aleksandra; Płatkowski, Piotr; Szymczak, Sabina; … - 2024
This paper describes the construction of a microlevel database on knowledge creation by higher education institutions (KC-HEI), accompanying the Global Knowledge InputOutput database (KIO, Davies et al., 2023). The database was created as part of Project Rethink GCS. KC-HEI links PATSTAT...
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Weakly progressive : disproportionate higher education attendance and the structure of income taxes
Gubello, Michele; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2022
This paper studies the effect of income tax progressivity on the disproportionate usage of publicly funded higher education. We develop a rational choice model showing that more progressive tax systems increase poorer households' net fiscal benefit, making their children more likely to attend...
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