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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970322
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270507
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Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015
We investigate whether the field of study influences university students' political attitudes. To disentangle self …-selection from learning effects, we first investigate whether the fields of study chosen by the incoming students correlate with … their political attitudes. In a second step we explore how the political attitudes change as the students progress in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346275
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Support for free-market policies and reforms : does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2016
university students' political attitudes. We disentangle self-selection from learning effects and reveal systematic differences … between incoming students' political attitudes across eight fields of study. In a second step we explore how the students …-market influence on political attitudes: by the time of graduation, economics students are some 6.2 percentage points more likely than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499897
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Does teaching load affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2009
Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269100
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Does teaching load affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2009
Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809030
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Progress Despite Uncertainty : Results of the AAA/KPMG Survey on Implementation of IFRS into U.S. Accounting Curricula
Beckman, Judy K. - 2017
This paper reports on the results of an AAA-wide survey on the state of faculty perceptions about, and actions toward, integrating IFRS into U.S. accounting curricula in a period of perceived reduction in regulatory momentum. In 2014, responses were received from 349 members representing all AAA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945011
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Personal Ethics & the U.S. Financial Collapse of 2007-08
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017
The seeds for the 2007-09 financial collapse were sewn over many years and nurtured by ill-advised governmental housing policy, the presence of pervasive fraud both large and small and the widespread failure of personal integrity. A chronology of bad choices made by individuals and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972692
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Of positivism and the history of economic thought
Caldwell, Bruce - 2013
century. Though this influence has greatly diminished, it still may be found in the attitude of many economists towards the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707985
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Phillips Curve for Advanced Economies on Period 1996-2007 - United States and Euro Area Case
Manuel, Eduardo Gando - 2007
This paper explains and shows us the Phillips Curve for advanced economies on period 1996-2007 for specially for the United States and Euro area case. The informations for 2006 and 2007 was considered being in attention the forecasting of International Monetary Fund (IMF) for these years. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057264