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The effect of a social experiment in education

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Marten - 2001

The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a ``social experiment''...

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Does a generous welfare state crowd out student effort? Panel data evidence from international student tests

Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008

Student achievement has been identified as an important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the hypothesis that redistributive government activities have a negative effect on investment in human capital using data from international comparative student achievement tests in...

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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk taking: Comparing children in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - 2010

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …

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Reciprocity in young children

Dahlman, Sandra; Ljungqvist, Pontus; Johannesson, Magnus - 2007

adults. We test if reciprocal behavior exists already among children 3-8 years old. Three simple anonymous allocation games … are conducted with 242 children. In a first stage, half of the children decide whether to give a bag of raisin to another … second stage the roles are reversed between the two children to test for reciprocal behavior. We find reciprocal behavior in …

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Lady and the trump: Status and wealth in the marriage market

Almenberg, Johan; Dreber, Anna - 2008

We examine a relatively neglected aspect of intergenerational transmission of economic standing, namely culturally determined status markers and their valuation in the marriage market. We take nobility to be such a status marker. Using data on Swedish marriages, we test the hypothesis that...

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Dominance and submission: Social status biases economic sanctions

von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - 2011

Social hierarchy is persistent in all almost all societies. Social norms and their enforcement are part of sustaining hierarchical systems. This paper combines social status and norm enforcement, by introducing status in a dictator game with third party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname;...

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The limit of discounted utilitarianism

Jonsson, Adam; Voorneveld, Mark - 2014

This paper presents an infinite-horizon version of intergenerational utilitarianism that is both satisfactorily complete and consistent. By studying discounted utilitarianism as the discount factor tends to one, we obtain a welfare criterion - limit-discounted utilitarianism - that combines...

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Utilitarianism for infinite utility streams: Summable differences and finite averages

Jonsson, Adam; Voorneveld, Mark - 2014

This paper provides axiomatic descriptions of social welfare relations, defined on infinite streams of utility, that are consistent with the utilitarian criterion on subsets where maximizing aggregate utility has a clear interpretation: the streams, or their differences, are summable. Besides...

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College quality and earnings in the Japanese labor market

Ono, Hiroshi - 2000

The motivations underlying the pursuit of college prestige in Japan presumes a labor market that rewards workers according to the quality of the college that they attended. Yet, studies that examine the relationship between college quality and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with...

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The impact of direct democracy on public education: Evidence for Swiss students in reading, mathematics and natural science

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007

Empirical analyses for the US suggest that stronger people's control over the school budget is deleterious to student performance. Using Swiss data on ninth graders in mathematics, reading and natural science collected jointly with the PISA study 2000, this paper tests this hypothesis for...

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