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Higher education as a filter
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Job Market Signaling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model in which signaling is implicitly defined and explains its usefulness, in which the employer is not sure of the productive capabilities of an individual at the time he/she hires him.
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Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information
TL;DR: The authors analyzes competitive markets in which the characteristics of the commodities exchanged are not fully known to at least one of the parties to the transaction, and suggests that some of the most important conclusions of economic theory are not robust to considerations of imperfect information.
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Jennifer Sue Bond,Daniel C Humphrey,Karen L Paton,Amy M Hightower,Larry Suter,Jean M Johnson,Melissa Pollak,John E Jankowski,Rolf F Lehming,Lawrence M Rausch,Jon D Miller +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the following categories: elementary and secondary science and mathematics education, higher education in science and engineering, academic research and development, public attitudes and public understanding.
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Psychological correlates of university students' academic performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis
TL;DR: A review of 13 years of research into antecedents of university students' grade point average (GPA) scores generated a comprehensive, conceptual map of known correlates of tertiary GPA; assessment of the magnitude of average, weighted correlations with GPA; and tests of multivariate models of GPA correlates within and across research domains.
Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution: A Report Prepared for the UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the main engines of change and their impact on higher education are examined, including globalisation, inequalities in access, increasing student mobility, teaching, learning and curricula, quality assurance, accountability and qualifications frameworks; financing and the public good-private good debate; the growth of private higher education; the academic profession; the research environment; information and communications technology; and the impact of demographics and the economic crisis on the development and reform of higher education in the immediate future.
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The Private and Social Value of Information and the Reward to Inventive Activity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the private and social value of information along with the reward of inventive activity, and argue that there tends to be private underinvestment in inventive activity mainly because of the imperfect appropriability of knowledge.
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The Private and Social Value of Information and the Reward to Inventive Activity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the private and social value of information along with the reward of inventive activity, and argue that there tends to be private underinvestment in inventive activity mainly because of the imperfect appropriability of knowledge.
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Education, Income, and Ability
Zvi Griliches,William M. Mason +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between education and ability in U.S. military veterans and found that the neglect of ability differences in the analyses of the income-education relationship results in estimates that are too high.
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Earnings Profile: Ability and Schooling
TL;DR: The authors examined the role played by ability in determining earnings differentials along both the earnings profile for given levels of schooling attainment and across schooling levels, and found that people of higher ability have the capacity to earn more (at a given schooling level) and if they also tend, significantly, to acquire more schooling than others.