This paper examines the effects of major funding projects for graduate education in Korea, specifically the BK21 and the WCU programs, on the research productivity of professors and young researchers. We apply the standard DID method, which compares the increase in research outputs as measured...

It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...

Die Dissertation untersucht in Form einer Einzelfallstudie den Wandel des Hochschulbereichs, wobei Hochschulrankings als exemplarisches Untersuchungsobjekt dieses Wandels dienen. Hochschulpolitische Reformen haben den Hochschulbereich Europas in den letzten zwanzig Jahren stark geprägt und...