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choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter …, crosssubsidisation of particular groups of people is often mandated on providers, reducing costcompetition and diversity of choice. (c …. Private financing and provision of social benefits is not a magic wand; waving it in the social protection field will not mean …
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Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
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We propose an extension of Tversky's lexicographic semiorder to a model of boundedly rational choice. We explore the … connection with sequential rationalisability of choice, and we provide axiomatic characterisations of both models in terms of … observable choice data. …
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manipulation to identify the role of positive and negative mood/affect in intertemporal choice. Our results demonstrate that, while …
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This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …
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Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this …, the average decision to commit suicide responds to changes in current expectations about future conditions. At least … partially, therefore, the decision seems rationalizable. …
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Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show … that include more than two decision-makers (e.g., polygamous households, adult children). We investigate household … consumption decision-making within monogamous and bigamous households in Burkina Faso. Using the standard testing approach …
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Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...
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Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
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We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision …
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