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Réformes et ordres universitaires locaux
Paradeise, Catherine; Thoenig, Jean-Claude - HAL - 2011
d'excellence, en fonction de la manière dont ils combinent l'attention qu'ils portent en valeur au prestige et à l'excellence … deux formes très différenciées de jugement, l'une contextuelle et synthétique, ici nommée prestige, l'autre a …-contextuelle et analytique, ici nommée excellence. Le texte dégage quatre types idéaux d'établissements, tous percutés par les mesures …
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Honest grading, grade inflation and reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2012
When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation. Conventional wisdom says that such grade inflation is unavoidable since it is essentially costless to award...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667051
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The Big Sort : College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2015
Spence (1973) noted that individuals' choice of educational quantity — measured by years of schooling — may stem partially from a desire to signal their ability to the labor market. This paper asks if individuals' choice of educational quality — measured by college reputation — may...
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Honest grading, grade inflation and reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2012
When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation. Conventional wisdom says that such grade inflation is unavoidable since it is essentially costless to award...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634253
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University funding systems: impact on research and teaching
Beath, John; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Ulph, David - 2011
We address the following question: how does a higher education funding system influence the trade-off that universities make between research and teaching? We do so by constructing a model that allows universities to choose actively the quality of their teaching and research when faced with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304310
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University rankings in action? The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative...
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Big Fishes in Small Ponds: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high-school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting exogenous variation in cohort composition. We nd that a student's ordinal rank in...
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A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo E. - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307338
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Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2015
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...
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University choice: The role of expected earnings, non-pecuniary outcomes, and financial constraints
Delavande, Adeline; Zafar, Basit - 2014
We investigate the determinants of students' university choice, with a focus on expected monetary returns, non-pecuniary factors enjoyed at school, and financial constraints, in the Pakistani context. To mitigate the identification problem concerning the separation of preferences, expectations,...
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