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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America

Smith, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues …

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The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk

Malamud, Ofer; Wozniak, Abigail - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

selection into college might also drive the relationship between college education and geographic mobility. We explore this …

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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program

Whelan, Kenneth T.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Hallock, Kevin F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population of employees not covered by collective …

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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices

Firpo, Sergio; Ponczek, Vladimir; Possebom, Vítor Augusto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

find that private education markets are local instead of national, since local ranks better predict tuition prices than …

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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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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