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Adjunct Teaching Fuels Grade Inflation and Distorts Student Choices

December 23, 2020 admin academia, careers, college, education, labor

Since the mid-1970s, higher education has increasingly relied on part-time, adjunct faculty. By 2015, 40% of classroom instructors were hired

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Are Professors Worth It? Who Should Teach College Students in Their Small Group Classes?

June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 admin academia, college, education, teachers

Many universities offer tutorials, also called teaching-assistant sessions, discussion sections, or lab sessions, depending on where you live. These small

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Do Conferences Contribute to Academic Impact?

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 admin academia, careers, economic research

Academics invest significant resources in attending and organizing conferences, and yet—until now—there has been strikingly little empirical analysis that tests

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Tracking the Effects of a Diaspora on Knowledge Production

October 26, 2017November 1, 2017 admin academia, diaspora, labor

Many economists have shown that ethnic diasporas are important for foreign direct investment, technology transfer, and international trade, but little

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