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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …

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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance

Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001

This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR). Differences across universities are analysed by specifying and estimating a subject- specific educational...

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SPECIFICATION OF A MODEL TO MEASURE THE VALUE OF TRAVEL TIME SAVINGS FROM BINOMIAL DATA

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2005

Using nonparametric methods, the paper examines the specification of a model to evaluate the distribution of willingness-to-pay (WTP) for travel time savings from binomial choice data from a simple time-cost trading experiment involving four public transport modes. A formulation in preference...

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The relationship between Mathematical Utility Theory and the Integrability Problem: some arguments in favour

Alcantud, J. C. R.; Bosi, G.; Rodríguez-Palmero, C.; … - EconWPA - 2003

The resort to utility-theoretical issues will permit us to propose a constructive procedure for deriving a homogeneous of degree one, continuous function that gives raise to a primitive demand function under suitably mild conditions. This constitutes the first elementary proof of a necessary and...

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Temptation, Welfare and Revealed Preference

Noor, Jawwad - EconWPA - 2005

Choice may be determined both by a consideration of one's welfare (normative preference) and by desires (temptation preference). To provide foundations for such a theory, Gul and Pesendorfer (2001, 2004) adopt a preference over choice problems as a primitive and hypothesize that temptation...

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The Endowment Effect in a Public Good Experiment

Lopez, Edward J.; Nelson, W. Robert - EconWPA - 2005

Previous tests of the endowment effect have usually observed WTA-WTP disparities. Here, a public good experiment is employed. Both account framing and duration framing treatments are introduced to alter subjects’ perceived control over an initial endowment. Results do not indicate that...

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The Impacts of Taste, Location of Origin, and Health Information on Market Demand for Sweet Potatoes

Nalley, Lanier; Hudson, Darren; Parkhurst, Greg - EconWPA - 2004

Location of product origin is an often-used marketing device by retailers. This approach is based on the assumption that location of origin signals something to consumers about the underlying quality (or other attributes) of the product. This can be an effective strategy if the signal matches...

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Semiparametric Estimation of Willingness to Pay Distributions

An, Mark Yuying - EconWPA - 1996

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Dying in an Avalanche: Current risks and Valuation

Leiter, Andrea M.; Pruckner, Gerald J. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the influence of implicit information associated with the occurrence of avalanches on willingness to pay (WTP) values for a risk prevention of dying in an avalanche. We present results of a contingent valuation (CV) study carried out in Austria in two different periods (fall...

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