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James E. West

- Verified email at jhu.edu - Cited by 7615

James E West

- Verified email at baylor.edu - Cited by 4565

Sex and science: How professor gender perpetuates the gender gap

SE Carrell, ME Page, JE West - The Quarterly journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Why aren't there more women in science? This paper begins to shed light on this question
by exploiting data from the US Air Force Academy, where students are randomly assigned to …

Does your cohort matter? Measuring peer effects in college achievement

…, RL Fullerton, JE West - Journal of Labor …, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
We estimate peer effects in college achievement using a data set in which individuals are
exogenously assigned to peer groups of about 30 students with whom they are required to …

Does professor quality matter? Evidence from random assignment of students to professors

SE Carrell, JE West - Journal of Political Economy, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
In primary and secondary education, measures of teacher quality are often based on
contemporaneous student performance on standardized achievement tests. In the postsecondary …

From natural variation to optimal policy? The importance of endogenous peer group formation

SE Carrell, BI Sacerdote, JE West - Econometrica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign
half to peer groups designed to maximize the academic performance of the lowest ability …

Noise levels in Johns Hopkins hospital

IJ Busch-Vishniac, JE West, C Barnhill… - The Journal of the …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
This article presents the results of a noise survey at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
Results include equivalent sound pressure levels (L eq) as a function of location, frequency…

Peer effects in academic cheating

SE Carrell, FV Malmstrom, JE West - Journal of human resources, 2008 - jhr.uwpress.org
Using self-reported academic cheating from the classes of 1959 through 2002 at the three
major United States military service academies (Air Force, Army, and Navy), we measure how …

A's from Zzzz's? The causal effect of school start time on the academic achievement of adolescents

SE Carrell, T Maghakian, JE West - American Economic Journal …, 2011 - aeaweb.org
Recent sleep research finds that many adolescents are sleep-deprived because of both early
school start times and changing sleep patterns during the teen years. This study identifies …

A beam tracing method for interactive architectural acoustics

…, I Carlbom, G Elko, M Sondhi, JE West… - The Journal of the …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
A difficult challenge in geometrical acoustic modeling is computing propagation paths from
sound sources to receivers fast enough for interactive applications. This paper describes a …

Mapping Hilbert cube manifolds to ANR's: a solution of a conjecture of Borsuk

JE West - Annals of Mathematics, 1977 - JSTOR
After Borsuk introduced the notion of absolute neighborhood retracts (ANR's) and JHC
Whitehead demonstrated that all ANR's have the homotopy types of cell-complexes [34], the …

Organic Field‐Effect Transistors and Unipolar Logic Gates on Charged Electrets from Spin‐On Organosilsesquioxane Resins

C Huang, JE West, HE Katz - Advanced Functional Materials, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Controllable shifting of threshold voltage and modulation of current in organic field‐effect
transistors (OFETs) is demonstrated, resulting in the formation of unipolar inverters by making …