This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers …

2011. Using student-level panel data, we assess the effects of this reform on academic activity and performance in two … universities in NRW: a state university and a private university of applied sciences (UAS). We find that the increasing dropout … rates at the state university do not necessarily point to lower ability or motivation, as an important share corresponds to …

The conformity of education, including that of university, or tertiary education, to employers' expectations represents … personal expectations to university education and of the requirements to highly educated professionals. Educational policies … to quantify employers' valuations of university curricula on the level of particular learning outcomes and skills, based …

and universities. (4) Although there is segregation within universities, most segregation across major × university cells …

universities in the 1960s and 1970s in West German regions which previously did not have a university as a case study to understand … Germany along with their low educational attainment. Second, I exploit that the university expansion exogenously brought … universities to women's doorsteps in a difference-indifferences (DiD) strategy. Comparing regions which experienced a university …

the purposes of political indoctrination. This paper presents the concept of corruption and coercion in the state-university … presents implications of this model for the state-university relations and the national educational systems in Central Eurasia …