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Douglas Webber

- Verified email at insead.edu - Cited by 3156

Douglas Webber

- Verified email at frb.gov - Cited by 2155

Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education?

DA Webber, RG Ehrenberg - Economics of Education Review, 2010 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE)
student at American 4-year colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate than median …

How likely is it that the European Union will disintegrate? A critical analysis of competing theoretical perspectives

D Webber - European Journal of International Relations, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This article turns existing theories of European integration on their head, exploring the
conditions under which they would predict that the European Union will disintegrate, and …

State divestment and tuition at public institutions

DA Webber - Economics of Education Review, 2017 - Elsevier
This study examines the pass-through rate of changes in public funding to tuition and fees
paid by students. Using an instrumental variable-fixed effects identification strategy, I estimate …

The returns to college persistence for marginal students: Regression discontinuity evidence from university dismissal policies

B Ost, W Pan, D Webber - Journal of Labor Economics, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on both college enrollment and
earnings. Exploiting that colleges dismiss low-performing students on the basis of exact …

Firm market power and the earnings distribution

DA Webber - Labour Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Using the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data from the United States
Census Bureau, I compute firm-level measures of labor market (monopsony) power. To …

Two funerals and a wedding? The ups and downs of regionalism in East Asia and Asia-Pacific after the Asian crisis

D Webber - The Pacific Review, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The principal regional organizations in East Asia and Asia-Pacific, ASEAN and APEC, are
widely seen to be crisis-stricken, ‘becalmed’ or ‘adrift’. At the same time, East Asia is …

A consolidated patrimonial democracy? Democratization in post-Suharto Indonesia

D Webber - Democratization, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
In fewer than eight years Indonesia, the world's most populous majority Muslim country, has
made a remarkable transition from an authoritarian to a democratic political system. Against …

Franco‐German bilateralism and agricultural politics in the European Union: The neglected level

D Webber - West European Politics, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
<p>Most of the newer models of European Union (EU) politics and European integration
downplay the role of national governments or at least see their influence as waning. This article …

Are college costs worth it? How ability, major, and debt affect the returns to schooling

DA Webber - Economics of Education Review, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college
degree under a variety of different settings (eg major, student loan debt, individual ability). I …

Longitudinal outcome study of sessile serrated adenomas of the colorectum: an increased risk for subsequent right-sided colorectal carcinoma

…, SPL Tha, DA Turbin, DL Webber - The American journal …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Sessile serrated adenomas (SSAs) are associated with colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) that
demonstrate high microsatellite instability (MSI-H). Currently, SSAs are managed clinically in …