This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in performance evaluations of university teachers. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset on 19,962 teaching evaluations, where students are randomly allocated to female or male teachers. Despite the fact that neither students’ grades nor self-study hours are affected by the teacher’s gender, we find that in particular male students evaluate fema...

In contrast to previous studies on the economic impact of universities that focus on the demand side, this study centres on universities’ effects on the supply side of the economy. Through a case study of the Spanish University System, this paper proposes a methodology based on counterfactual scenarios and growth accounting to estimate the long-term impacts of universities on their regional eco...

This paper explores the issue of efficiency in English higher education using data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis to estimate an output distance function (which incorporates measures of both quantity and quality of teaching and research inputs and outputs) over a thirteen-year period. The study compares the efficiency estimates derived from various estimation methods, and...

Rising college enrollment over the last quarter century has not been met with a proportional increase in college completion. Comparing the high school classes of 1972 and 1992, we show declines in college completion rates have been most pronounced for men who first enroll in less selective public universities and community colleges. We decompose the decline into the components due to changes in...

DNA gyrase B (GyrB) from B. stearothermophilus has been crystallized in the presence of the non-hydrolyzable ATP analogue, 5'-adenylyl-beta-gamma-imidodiphosphate (ADPNP), by the dialysis method. A complete native data set to 3.7 A has been collected from crystals which belonged to the cubic space group I23 with unit-cell dimension a = 250.6 A. Self-rotation function analysis indicates the posi...

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing internal migration the United States. begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals’ decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding impact of outcomes, implications for labor market adjustment, interactions between housing markets. Finally, discuss efficacy policies ai...

Temperature is a very important parameter when aiming to minimize radiation damage to biological samples during experiments that utilize intense ionizing radiation. A novel technique for remote, non-contact, in situ monitoring of the protein crystal temperature has been developed for the new I23 beamline at the Diamond Light Source, a facility dedicated to macromolecular crystallography (MX) wi...

This paper evaluates the role of rising income inequality in explaining observed growth college tuition. We develop a competitive model market, which quality depends on instructional expenditure and average ability admitted students. An innovative feature our is that it allows for continuous distribution quality. find increases US can explain more than half rise net tuition since 1990 has also ...

Laboratory evidence shows that when people have to argue for a given position, they persuade themselves about the position’s factual and moral superiority. Such self-persuasion limits potential of communication resolve conflict reduce polarization. We test this phenomenon in field setting, at international debating competitions randomly assign experienced motivated debaters one side topical mot...

We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable access to individual if they exceed specified thresholds, were introduced different provinces at times. Using detailed administrative data covering majority Canada, and an event-study research design that exploits within-province variation exposure policy across institu...