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Computer Science for All? The Impact of High School Computer Science Courses on College Majors and Earnings

Liu, Jing; Conrad, Cameron; Blazar, David - 2024

This study provides the first causal analysis of the impact of expanding Computer Science (CS) education in U.S. K-12 schools on students' choice of college major and early career outcomes. Utilizing rich longitudinal data from Maryland, we exploit variation from the staggered rollout of CS...

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Enhancing entrepreneurship education in a master's degree in computer engineering: A project-based learning approach

Arias, Enrique; Barba-Sánchez, Virginia; Carrión, Carmen - In: Administrative Sciences 8 (2018) 4, pp. 1-17

New master's degrees in computer engineering, designed according to Spanish government requirements, include both technical and business subjects to provide advanced knowledge compared to undergraduate studies. In spite of acquiring this advanced knowledge, our students are not always aware of...

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Can Online Delivery Increase Acces to Education?

Goodman, Joshua S.; Melkers, Julia; Pallais, Amanda - 2017

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing formal...

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Die Rolle des Internets als Informationsbeschaffungsmedium in Banken

Roßbach, Peter - 2009

Subject of the study presented in this paper is the analysis of the relevance of the Internet as an information source in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed the most important information source for many types of information used in the business processes of banks....

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A Review on Energy Consumption from a Socio-Economic Perspective: Reduction through Energy Efficiency and Beyond

Schmidt, Stephan; Weigt, Hannes - 2013

Reducing energy demand and increasing energy efficiency are seen as major elements of the ongoing transformation of energy systems in multiple national and international programs like the EU 20-20-20 targets. Despite the predominately socio-economic nature of energy demand such interdisciplinary...

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For a political sociology of water resources management

Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008

'political sociology of water resources management'. The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …, 1984; Archer, 1995) and the notion of public sociology (Burawoy, 2005a); development studies' understanding of the … studies in this particular way comes from. The section situates the field in relation to development sociology as the …

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A Note on Social Norms and Transfers

Sundén, David; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997

This note elaborates an extension of the paper 'Social Norms, the Welfare State, and Voting' by Lindbeck, Nyberg, and Weibull [1]. That paper studies the effects of a social norm against living off others work. In the welfare-state context of their model, this means that individuals who live on...

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The Crisis in Economic Theory: A Review Essay

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2015

The Great Recession and the financial crisis of 2007-09 prompted ca lls for fundamental reforms of economic theory. The role of theory in economics and in recent economic events is considered in light of two recen t books: the sociologist Richard Swedberg's The Art of Social Theory and the...

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Improvements and Future Challenges in the Field of Genetically Sensitive Sample Designs

Spinath, Frank M. - 2008

growing interest in psychology, sociology, and economics. A quantitative genetic research design provides the necessary tools …

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Neighborhood characteristics as determinants of healthcare utilization: A theoretical model

Mohnen, Sigrid M.; Schneider, Sven Andreas; Droomers, … - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 7, pp. 1-9

Background: We propose using neighborhood characteristics as demand-related morbidity adjusters to improve prediction models such as the risk equalization model. Results: Since the neighborhood has no explicit 'place' in healthcare demand models, we have developed the 'Neighborhood and...

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