This paper identifies the major areas of research strengths and concentration across all Australian universities, as demonstrated by the number of PhDs and academic staff members (S) in ten broad fields of education using the average audited data (2001-2003). The ratio of PhD completions to S is...

Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...

In der Wissenschaft lassen sich Wissenschaftler, Fachbereiche, Universitäten und Zeitschriften ranken. Ergebnisse für die BWL an der Universität Münster und ihre höchstgerankten Professoren, für die VWL und WI, die ganze Universität und für deutsche BWL-Zeitschriften werden vorgestellt.

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...