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. -- Higher education ; university choice ; college admission ; conditional logit …This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a … university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I …
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Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education …. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …
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Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is more costly. The product quality hypothesis states that independent agents provide both insurers and customers with higher service quality and therefore, remain on the market....
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This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education …. It was completed in March 2019 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …
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data from post-secondary education that links students from randomly assigned instructors in introductory-level courses to … that are well-liked by students - and thus likely prized by university administrators - and considered to be easy have …
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of tertiary education attendance, indicating that both measures are complementary in measuring teacher quality in the …
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This paper estimates a professor's value added to a postgraduate student's research achievement growth using unique panel data on matched advisor-advisee pairs in a world-leading physics graduate program. To address an identification problem related to the endogenous selection of advisors and...
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Evaluations of the Higher Education Sector are receiving increased attention, due to the rising expenditures and the … inefficiency is considered in the analysis of the German Higher Education Sector. The comparison reveals that the disregard of … term and residual. This implies that increasing efficiency requires a comprehensive change of the university structure. …
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Spatial proximity facilitates transfer of knowledge and technology between research institutes or universities (RIU) and firms. Against this background the location of research institutions and universities is often seen as an instrument of regional policy to promote knowledge flows and R&D...
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We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on college enrollment matched to administrative data on weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings...
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