For the 65 colleges and universities that participate in the Power Five athletic conferences (Pac 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, and Big 12), the football and men’s basketball teams are highly visible. While these programs generate tens of millions of dollars in revenue annually, very few of them turn...

This paper is learning about the economy in term of substitution, elasticity, the rate of protection and supply & demand in the area of student behavior with alcohol. This paper examines 278 third-year students' alcohol use and how it affects their academic performance, specifically looking at...

Those lecture notes cover the basics of a course in microeconomic theory for MSc students in Economics. They were developed over five years of teaching MSc Economic Theory I in the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.The programme of this course is divided in...

Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian university. The rule means that in almost 30 per...

Metoda conjoint analysis measurement została pierwotnie zaproponowana na gruncie badań psychometrycznych. W zastosowaniach marketingowych służy do pomiaru preferencji konsumentów względem produktów opisanych wektorem zmiennych, które mierzone są na skali nominalnej (w analizie pełnią...

In the article, the conjoint analysis method was applied to the situation in which school management intends to start new, post high-school form of teaching opportunities, Each new school is described by five variables: duration, work intensity, organization, vocational diploma, and price per...

The ethics of tax evasion has been discussed sporadically in the theological and philosophical literature for at least 500 years. Martin Crowe wrote a doctoral thesis that reviewed much of that literature in 1944. The debate revolved around about 15 issues. Over the centuries, three main views...

Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...

Good teachers are critical for a high-quality educational system. This in turns leads to the question of who is interested in going into the teaching profession. Although research has been done on the professional careers of teachers, the issue of self-selection into teacher education has been...

The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students about what their expected earnings would be...