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Productivity, efficiency, and managerial performance regress and gains in United States universities : a data envelopment analysis
Sav, G. T. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 13-32
This paper uses data envelopment analys is to investigate the extent to which universities in the United States have … undergone productivity and efficiency changes, partly due to managerial performance, during the 2005-09 academic years. Using … panel data for 133 research and doctoral universities, the focus is on the primary drivers of U.S. publicly controlled …
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Academic Exchange 'Global Literacy' and U.S. Higher Education
Schukoske, Jane E. - 2009
Since the end of World War I, systematic efforts in the USA to promote academic exchange have steadily increased. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206412
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The Impact of International Students on US Graduate Education
Shih, Kevin - 2016
unique boom and bust in international enrollment at US universities from 1995-2005. Increases in international students … positions (RA/TA) for domestic students. Decreases in international students during the bust have no effect, as universities … instruments that interact universities' historical foreign presence with supply shocks ― population growth in sending countries …
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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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Credit constraints in education
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2012
We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints have recently become important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
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Taking education to the next level : what can be learned from benchmarking education across economies?
Chun, Natalie; Gentile, Elisabetta - 2020
Benchmarking is intended to help gauge where economies rank relative to others. However, historically educational benchmarking has often elected to use indicators based on their ease of availability, rather than a clear and defined link between inputs and learning outcomes. In this paper, we...
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Affirmative action : one size does not fit all
Krishna, Kala; Tarasov, Alexander - 2013
This paper identifies a new reason for giving preferences to the disadvantaged using a model of contests. There are two forces at work: the effort effect working against giving preferences and the selection effect working for them. When education is costly and easy to obtain (as in the U.S.),...
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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
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How Equal are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319074
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Efficacy and Complexities of Performance-Based Pay for Teachers in the United States
Susanto, Putu Chris; Susanto, Putu Chris - 2022
Performance-based pay refers to providing compensation and rewards based on the fulfillment of certain predetermined task or outcomes. In the momentum for greater teacher accountability in the United States, performance-based pay is expected to be a solution to the nation’s prevailing problems...
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