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The 2018 Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools
Ryan, CJ - 2018
In 2017, we published A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools, which presented the first (intentionally) subjective ranking of law schools based on the revealed preferences of matriculating students. We created a subjective ranking system as an alternative to other law school rankings,...
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A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools
Ryan, CJ - 2018
The U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Schools Rankings” defines the market for legal education. Law schools compete to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934461
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The 2019 Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools
Ryan, CJ - 2020
In 2017, we published A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools, which presented the first (intentionally) objective ranking of law schools. Other law school rankings are subjective because their purpose is to tell prospective law students where to matriculate. Our “revealed-preferences”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849868
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Culture, Self-Orientation, and Reward Structure Effects : Measuring Cheating Behaviors in China and the USA
Rhyne, D.B.A., William J. - 2011
The research presented examines the roles of nationality, self-orientation, and reward conditions on students' willingness to cheat on a test linked to small financial rewards. Two country cultures are examined with China representing a collectivist culture and the United States representing an...
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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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Childhood roots of financial literacy
Grohmann, Antonia; Kouwenberg, Roy; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2015
Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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Health disparities across education : the role of differential reporting error
Cawley, John H.; Choi, Anna - 2015
. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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