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Do undergraduate majors or Ph.D. students affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2010
Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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Breadth of university curriculum and labor market outcomes
Seah, Kelvin; Pan, Jessica; Poh Lin Tan - 2020
, curriculum. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compare changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from … the affected faculty, before-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate … cohorts from the other faculties. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …
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Breadth of university curriculum and labor market outcomes
Seah, Kelvin; Pan, Jessica; Poh Lin Tan - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 65 (2020)
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Efficiency of the top 50 business schools in the United States
Hirao, Yukiko - In: Applied economics letters 19 (2012) 1/3, pp. 73-78
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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance
Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016
Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
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The effect of a specialized versus a general upper-secondary school curriculum on students' performance and inequality : a difference-in-differences cross-country analysis
Leme, Afonso Câmara; Escardíbul, Josep Oriol; Nunes, … - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 39, pp. 4317-4331
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Skills and earning revisited
Johnes, Geraint - In: Economics of education : issues of transition and …, (pp. 167-183). 2010
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The causal effects of an intensified curriculum on cognitive skills : evidence from a natural experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …
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The effect of instructional time reduction on educational attainment : evidence from the Japanese curriculum standards revision
Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 32 (2014), pp. 17-41
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Does more maths and natural sciences in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? : evidence from a curriculum reform
Biewen, Martin; Schwerter, Jakob - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 16, pp. 1889-1911
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