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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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How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic non-financial incentives play an important...
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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 …
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The U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Schools Rankings” defines the market for legal education. Law schools compete to … 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 …
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U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) announced in February 2019 its intention to debut its new ranking measuring the … scholarly impact of law schools’ faculty members. In producing the ranking, USNWR has collaborated with William S. Hein & Co … impact ranking of law schools.” However, this ranking has yet to be printed, allowing legal academics to challenge the notion …
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How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic non-financial incentives play an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061998
. The confidence sets for the ranking of the 50 most populous commuting zones by measures of mobility are also found to be …
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prominent example is the ranking of political candidates or parties using the estimated share of support each one receives in … than the true share of support, there may be considerable uncertainty concerning the true ranking of the political … our finite-sample confidence sets are informative across the entire ranking of political parties, even in Australian …
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prominent example is the ranking of political candidates or parties using the estimated share of support each one receives in … than the true share of support, there may be considerable uncertainty concerning the true ranking of the political … our finite-sample confidence sets are informative across the entire ranking of political parties, even in Australian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313592