Are elite universities losing their competitive edge?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect weakened in the 1980s and disappeared in the 1990s. We decompose this university fixed effect and fi...
متن کاملNber Working Paper Series Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect weakened in the 1980s and disappeared in the 1990s. We decompose this university fixed effect and fi...
متن کاملAre we losing our edge?
Gabriel Aeppli was born in Switzerland, but when he was 1 year old, his father came to the U.S. to pursue a career as a mathematician. Back then, America was a scientific "city on the hill," a place where enormous resources, academic freedom, a tradition of skepticism and a history of excellence lured everyone from astronomers to zoologists from all over the world, and like Aeppli's father, man...
متن کاملAre Public Schools Really Losing Their “Best”
Most studies that have fueled alarm over the attrition and mobility rates of high-quality teachers have relied on proxy indicators of teacher quality, which recent research finds to be only weakly correlated with value-added measures of teachers’ performance. We examine attrition and mobility of teachers using teacher value-added measures for early-career teachers in North Carolina public schoo...
متن کاملCompetitive fuzzy edge detection
Our fuzzy classifier detects classes of image pixels corresponding to gray level variation in the various directions. It uses an extended Epanechnikov function as a fuzzy set membership function (FSMF) for each class where the class assigned to each pixel is the one with the greatest fuzzy truth of membership. This classification is done first, after which a competition is run as a second step ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Financial Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0304-405X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2008.09.007