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Improving Access and Quality in the Indian Education System
Hill, Sam; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224863
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Social Comparison and Peer Effects at an Elite College.
Goethals, G.R. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2000
A study was conducted to see whether peer effects could be observed among undergraduates at Williams College, an elite four-year liberal arts school. Specifically, the study explored whether students in the bottom third of their class, with average SAT's of about 1300, would perform better in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292763
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Incentivos a la investigación en España
Rosselló, Joan - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2004
aimed at improving the scientific output in the Spanish Universities. Our results show that those incentives that represent … scientific output –in top-quality economic journals- is concentrate in a few Universities (Departments of Economics or Research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005773031
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The Economic Analogy.
McPherson, M.; Schapiro, M.O.; Winston, G. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1996
This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of the analogy of higher education to a for-profit industry where schools are seen as firms and students as customers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650303
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Skills, Innovations and Values: Future Needs for Postsecondary Education.
McPherson, Michael S.; Schapiro, Morton Owen - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292767
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Evaluation of the Role of Universities in the Innovation Process
Becker, Wolfgang - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2003
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of universities in the innovation process. Against the background of … input side can be summarized as follows: High assessments to university-based resources and joint R&D with universities … universities are used as complements in the German manufacturing industry. In-house capacities can be expanded with positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022085
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Technological Capabilities and Learning in African Enterprises.
Biggs, T.; Shah, M.; Srivastava, P. - World Bank Group - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670012
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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
dataset covering the universe of physicists, chemists, and mathematicians at all German universities from 1925 until 1938 I …
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584548
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Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany
Waldinger, Fabian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
dataset covering the universe of physicists, chemists, and mathematicians at all German universities from 1925 until 1938 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151079