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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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We study the effects of admission into elite public high schools in Mexico City on students' expected earnings, arguing these effects provide an indication of the value-added those schools produce. Using data for the centralized and exam-based allocation of students into schools and an adapted...
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This papers contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...
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We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred … homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We allow endogenous schooling attainments to affect the level of risk … experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk …
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Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the celebrated Mincerian wage equation with skill heterogeneity,...
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This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy. This study shows through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the...
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This paper compares the effectiveness of strict liability and capped strict liability regimes in an agency relationship among a regulatory agency and operators of risky activities. Under a double asymmetric information assumption (wealth and efficiency in care effort), it shows that capping...
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This chapter of a collective book aims at presenting the basics of decision making under risk. We first define notions … of risk and increasing risk and recall definitions and classifications (that are valid independently of any … representation) of behavior under risk. We then review the classical model of expected utility due to von Neumann and Morgenstern …
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The theory of existence of equilibrium with short-selling is reconsidered under risk and ambiguity modelled by risk … of the risk adjusted sets of expectations overlap. This condition is necessary if agents are not risk neutral at extreme … compatible trades, with non negative expected value with respect to any risk adjusted prior, strictly positive for some agent and …
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, which allow to take into account observed behaviors as in Allais' paradox under risk or Ellsberg's paradox under uncertainty … uncertainty, and Quiggin and Yaari under risk, succeeded to characterize preferences which generalize the EU model, by means of a … for more diversified patterns of behavior under uncertainty as well under risk. …
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