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Effect of a School Finance Reform on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Proposal A in Michigan

Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004

Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I...

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Simulation-based estimation of peer effects

Krauth, Brian - EconWPA - 2004

The influence of peer behavior on an individual's choices has received renewed interest in recent years. However, accurate measures of this influence are difficult to obtain. Standard reduced-form methods lead to upwardly biased estimates due to simultaneity, common shocks, and nonrandom peer...

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Sorting and inequality in Canadian schools

Friesen, Jane; Krauth, Brian - EconWPA - 2004

Researchers and educators often argue that a student's peers strongly influence his or her educational outcomes. If so, an unequal distribution of advantaged and disadvantaged students across schools in a community will leave many students doubly disadvantaged and amplify existing inequalities....

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Testing for Team Spirit - An Experimental Study

Sausgruber, Rupert - EconWPA - 2005

It is often suggested that team spirit counteracts free-riding. Testing for team spirit with field data is difficult …, however, due to an inherent identification problem. In this paper test for team spirit experimentally. In a team work task we … vary subjects' information about relative team performance while we leave unchanged the structure of explicit incentives …

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Peer and selection effects on youth smoking in California

Krauth, Brian - EconWPA - 2004

A number of studies have indicated that peer smoking is a highly influential factor in a young person's decision to smoke. However, these results are suspect because the studies often fail to account for selection and simultaneity bias. This paper develops an econometric model of youth smoking...

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Predicting job performance: A comparison of expert opinion and research findings*

Dakin, Stephen; Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004

A survey was conducted of New Zealand personnel consultants. Their beliefs about the validity of various selection tools and their claimed usage of these tools was then compared with the validities in a previously published meta-analysis. The experts claimed to use the predictors they believed...

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Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper …-of-season points from domestic football leagues to measure the degree of competitive balance and to use it as a comparative indicator … between the contesting countries in international football tournaments. The seasonal CV values computed from over ten seasons …

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CAN WE PREDICT THE OUTCOME OF THE INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENTS : THE CASE OF EURO 2000?

Halicioglu, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This paper statistically analyses and attempts to predict the most likely winners of the Euro 2000 football tournament …

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The impact of downside risk on risk-adjusted performance of mutual funds in the Euronext markets

Plantinga, Auke; Sortino, Franks; Meer, Robert van der - EconWPA - 2004

Many performance measures, such as the classic Sharpe ratio have difficulty in evaluating the performance of mutual funds with skewed return distributions. Common causes for skewness are the use of options in the portfolio or superior market timing skills of the portfolio manager. In this...

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Data Envelopment Analysis in Environmental Valuation: Environmental Performance, Eco-efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika - EconWPA - 2004

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming based method for evaluating performance of comparable production units such as firms. Although the method is already extensively applied in many areas of economics, its use in environmental economics and related fields remains limited. The...

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