The university as an internal labour market
The university as an internal labour market Catherine Haeck, Frank Verboven17 June 2010How does a university organise its hiring and promotion policy? This column presents evidence on the personnel...
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What’s the use of economics? Introduction to the Vox debate Diane Coyle19 September 2012Five years after Lehman’s collapse, economics is under fire both from outside and inside the profession for...
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Greening Economics: It is time Carlo Carraro, Marianne Fay, Marzio Galeotti26 April 2014The concept of environmental capital is throughly entrenched in policy dicussions but largely missing from...
View ArticleThe mainstream economics curriculum needs an overhaul
The mainstream economics curriculum needs an overhaul Diane Coyle04 May 2014The undergraduate economics curriculum is hugely influential, since today’s undergraduates are tomorrow’s policymakers. The...
View ArticleTeaching economics as if the last three decades had happened
20 May 2014Wendy Carlin talks to Viv Davies about the 'Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics' (CORE) project, which was established by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford...
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We don’t need no (management) education? Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen07 December 2014Schools with greater autonomy often perform well, but there is disagreement over...
View ArticleImproving university experiences: In-person coaching versus technology
In-person coaching versus technology: Proactive, constant contact matters Philip Oreopoulos, Uros Petronijevic13 November 2016Questions over the value of a university education are underscored by...
View ArticleMeasuring how much universities spend on teaching
Measuring how much universities spend on teaching Gervas Huxley, Mike Peacey13 August 2017In an attempt to improve incentives for university teaching, the UK government recently introduced a Teaching...
View ArticleA new paradigm for the introductory course in economics
A new paradigm for the introductory course in economics Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin07 September 2017Our intro courses fail to reflect the dramatic advances in economics – concerning information...
View ArticleThe long-run effects of same-race teachers
The long-run effects of same-race teachers Seth Gershenson, Cassandra Hart, Joshua Hyman, Constance A. Lindsay, Nicholas W. Papageorge22 December 2018There have been many calls to increase the racial...
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