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-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population of employees not covered by collective …
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investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail at the university admission process in the UK. We use a 50 percent random … sample of administrative data covering all university applications in 2008 and find no evidence of universities … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
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This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
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selection into college might also drive the relationship between college education and geographic mobility. We explore this …
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This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues …
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find that private education markets are local instead of national, since local ranks better predict tuition prices than …
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We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...
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Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...
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In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...
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