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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation

St-Pierre, Marc; Mejia, Daniel - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where agents face different costs of access to the educational system. The paper explores the relation between inequality of opportunities (in the form of differential costs of access to the educational process) and...

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Signaling and the Education Premium

Kurtzon, Gregory - Econometric Society - 2004

A large portion of the rise in the education premium can be explained by a signaling theory of education which predicts that in the future, increases in the education level of the workforce will actually cause the education premium to rise, simply because different workers are being labeled as...

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Labor Market Discrimination in the US: A Quantile Regression Approach

Guimarães, Juliana Ferraz - Econometric Society - 2004

In this study I apply quantile regression techniques to the well-known Oaxaca coefficient of discrimination. This methodology provides different coefficients for different quantiles of the conditional wage distribution and is more informative than the technique based on OLS regression, which...

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The architecture and the configuration of information-processing organizations

Kim, Jeong-Yoo; Jun, Tackseung - Econometric Society - 2004

We model a hierarchy consisting of possibly corrupted agents who process information, and consider the problem of designing the efficient hierarchy structure and configuring the agents who differ in their honesty. If the only role of agents is to report the information to their direct superior,...

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Bureaucratic Provision: Influencing vs. Lying

Vaidya, Samarth - Econometric Society - 2004

" with its ability to misreport or "lie", I examine the impact influencing might have on the bureau's incentives to lie and …

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Commons, anti-commons, corruption and â€œmaffiaâ€ behavior.

Canavese, Alfredo - Econometric Society - 2004

The particular point that will be stressed in this paper is that benefits derived from corrupt behaviour depend on institutions devised to discourage it. The analytical framework used to explore the symmetric tragedies of the commons and the anticommons outlined by James Buchaman and Yong J....

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An Experimental Analysis of Third-Party Response to Corruption

Gangadharan, Lata; Chaudhuri, Ananish; Erkal, Nisvan - Econometric Society - 2004

It is a well-established fact that corruption is a widespread phenomenon. An important aspect of corruption is that two parties act jointly in order to further their own interests at the expense of a third party. The response of the third party has a significant impact on the persistence of...

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School Choice, Incentives, and Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Gallego, Francisco A. - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper examines the effects of inter-school competition on student outcomes by using exogenous variation in the availability of private schools in Chile. Given that naïve estimates of the effects of competition on student outcomes are biased by endogenous entry of schools, this paper uses...

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Coordination, Specialization and Incentives: An Equilibrium Model of Firm Boundaries

Mathewson, Frank; Horstmann, Ignatius J. - Econometric Society - 2004

incentives for multiple agents to undertake efficient levels of the separate activities. The ability of various mechanisms to … provide incentives and the way that this ability is affected by information and agent numbers will determine both which …'s perspective -- but also by the ability of the coordination mechanism to provide incentives for efficient activity levels as …

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The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination

Lang, Kevin - Econometric Society - 2004

Under the standard competitive model, if a tax change affects a group of workers with highly inelastic labor supply, their earnings will fall by essentially the entire nominal employer share of the tax increase. Allowing the wage to play a motivational role but maintaining the market-clearing...

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