Tinkering toward accolades : school gaming under a performance accountability system / Julie Berry Cullen, Randall Reback -- An examination of student achievement in Michigan charter schools / Randall W. Eberts, Kevin M. Hollenbeck -- Does school choice increase school quality? Evidence from...

We experimentally study contributing behavior to a threshold public good under simultaneous and sequential voluntary contribution mechanisms and investigate how refund policies interact with the mechanism. We find that, for a given refund rule, efficiency is greater under a sequential...

We report the results of a laboratory experiment on crowd-out in a voluntary contribution mechanism public good game. In our setting, a standard argument states that a tax should not be effective in raising contributions, because agents respond by reducing voluntary contributions by the amount...

This paper develops and applies a method for estimating workers' marginal willingess to pay for job attributes when workers' job choices are characterized by imperfect information and labor market search. As an application, this paper analyzes the job durations of white males using data from the...