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Using a theoretical model where students care about achievement rank, I study effort choices in the classroom and show that rank concerns generate peer effects. The model's key empirical prediction is that the effect on own achievement of increasing the dispersion in peer cost of effort is...
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In 2017, we published A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools, which presented the first (intentionally …) objective ranking of law schools. Other law school rankings are subjective because their purpose is to tell prospective law … students where to matriculate. Our “revealed-preferences” ranking is objective because its purpose is to ask where prospective …
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the state of the field. Yet, such exercises are very sensitive to design choices made in the ranking and measurement … composition of the rankings. The article discusses key challenges in measuring and ranking article output in the discipline of …
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In 2017, we published A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools, which presented the first (intentionally …) subjective ranking of law schools based on the revealed preferences of matriculating students. We created a subjective ranking … students where to matriculate. Our “revealed-preferences” ranking is subjective, because its purpose is to ask where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923007
alternative, or some combination of the two.In theory, the purpose of ranking law schools is to provide useful information to … different factors are salient to different students.This article provides the first subjective ranking of law schools. It … describes a method of ranking law schools based on the revealed preferences of matriculating students. Law school admission …
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Using a theoretical model where students care about achievement rank, I study effort choices in the classroom and show that rank concerns generate peer effects. The model's key empirical prediction is that the effect on own achievement of increasing the dispersion in peer cost of effort is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602698
We explore how within classroom ordinal height or income rank of elementary school students affect their future academic performance. Using a Korean panel dataset covering multiple classrooms of each school in the data, we exploit the feature that two students with identical height or family...
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We provide a ranking of economics departments in Europe and we discuss the methods used to obtain it. The JEL CD … ranking …
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This article partially fills the gap in the literature on the ranking of business ethics journals. It reviews past … rankings and provides a more comprehensive ranking of 34 business ethics journals with the intent of making it easier for rank …
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. Although there is a lot of discussion on the controversy that surrounds all ranking methods, university evaluations are perhaps … even more popular these days with the global economic recession. The present paper presents a methodology for ranking …
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