The Colleges (Dutch: Hogescholen) have gained an important position in the knowledge infrastructure. In 1999, the number of enrolled College students increased to nearly 300,000 and the number of College graduates to more than 50,000. Since the nineties, the higher education policy is...

This paper describes research done concerning the size, level and explanation of the financial reports of 14 Dutch universities. Based on earlier research in the USA concerning the financial report of niversities, 14 Dutch financial reports are examined. See the Tables. In spite of the...

The Colleges (Dutch: Hogescholen) have gained an important position in the knowledge infrastructure. In 1999, the number of enrolled College students increased to nearly 300,000 and the number of College graduates to more than 50,000. Since the nineties, the higher education policy is...

This paper is the first that analyzes the relation between maternal work hours and the cognitive outcomes of young school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the...

This paper measures determinants of individual academic achievements. In addition to an extensive list of individual characteristics, skills obtained during study and socio-economic background factors, many dimensions of selectivity into academic study subjects are shown to drive individual...

At each moment in time, some alternative from a finite set is selected by a dynamic process. Players observe the alternative selected and sequentially cast a yes or a no vote. If the set of players casting a yes–vote is decisive for the alternative in question,the alternative is accepted...

Social background directly impacts educational choice and attainment, but also influences choice and attainment indirectly by affecting school performance. Boudon (1974) described this relationship as primary (indirect) and secondary (direct) effects of social stratification. Based on this...

We try to explain the differences between the performance (in both reading and math) of 8430 15-year-old daughters and 8526 15-year-old sons in 17 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development destination countries across Europe and Oceania with the PISA 2009 data from 45 origin...

This paper presents the results from an experiment investigating whether framing affects the elicitation and predictive power of preferences for cooperation, i.e., the willingness to cooperate with others. Cooperation preferences are elicited in three treatments using the method of Fischbacher,...

We experimentally investigate a bargaining environment in which players negotiate over a xed payment to one player, while the other player receives the residual from a random pie realization after subtracting the xed payment. Contrary to the intuition that risk exposure is detrimental, we show...