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The effect of higher-achieving peers on major choices and labor market outcomes
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students’ major … choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520209
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936343
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Returns to teaching repetition : the effect of short-term teaching experience on student outcomes
Cuffe, Harold E.; Feld, Jan; O'Grady, Trevor - 2019
setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121887
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On the nature of peer effects in academic achievement
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362892
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The effect of peer gender on major choice in business school
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2020
Business degrees are popular and lead to high earnings. Female business graduates, however, earn less than their male counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to high earnings. In this paper, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239613
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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054776
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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039001
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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772416
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The effect of peer gender on major choice
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2017
This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752332