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Aligning student, parent, and teacher incentives : evidence from Houston public schools
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490072
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - In: Journal of public economics 220 (2023), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301778
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Parental Paternalism and Patience
Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - 2021
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250733
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When the great equalizer shuts down : schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times
Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - In: Journal of public economics 206 (2022), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197437
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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms
Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213782
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Sitting Next to a Dropout - Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers
Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081431
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Gender differences in discrimination emerge early in life : evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city
Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, … - In: Economics letters 152 (2017), pp. 15-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800772
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Valuing identity
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.>; Loury, Glenn C. - 2010
"Affirmative action policies are practiced around the world. This paper explores the welfare economics of such policies. A model is proposed where heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, compete for positions in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773311
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A case for taxing charitable donations
Blumkin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - In: Journal of public economics 91 (2007) 7/8, pp. 1555-1564
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003555161
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A case for taxing education
Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Tsadḳah, Efrayim (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003075976