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The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
mathematics, and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Department of Education … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …
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Gender Gaps at the Academies
Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
publications in the top journals in three fields - Psychology, Mathematics and Economics - and develop a series of models to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388866
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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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Indeterminacy in a Forward Looking Regime Switching Model
Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2006
This paper is about the properties of Markov switching rational expectations (MSRE) models. We present a simple monetary policy model that switches between two regimes with known transition probabilities. The first regime, treated in isolation, has a unique determinate rational expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466125
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What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-Standing Preference-Based Explanation
Barberis, Nicholas - 2006
explanation for this puzzle is based on prospect theory. Despite its prominence, this explanation has received little formal … scrutiny. We take up this task, and analyze the trading behavior of investors with prospect theory preferences. We find that …, at least for the simplest implementation of prospect theory, the link between these preferences and the disposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466268
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Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices
Reiss, Peter C. - 2006
This paper examines how to evaluate consumer welfare when consumers face nonlinear prices. This problem arises in many settings, such as devising optimal pricing strategies for firms, assessing how price discrimination affects consumers, and evaluating the efficiency costs of many transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466295
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Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility, and Corporate Investment
Almeida, Heitor - 2006
between capital spending and cash flows is non-monotonic in the firm's asset tangibility. Our theory allows us to use a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466582
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Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth
Fullerton, Don - 2006
Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466599
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A Maximum Likelihood Method for the Incidental Parameter Problem
Moreira, Marcelo - 2008
This paper uses the invariance principle to solve the incidental parameter problem. We seek group actions that preserve the structural parameter and yield a maximal invariant in the parameter space with fixed dimension. M-estimation from the likelihood of the maximal invariant statistic yields...
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Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How it Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)
Del Negro, Marco - 2008
The paper discusses prior elicitation for the parameters of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, and provides a method for constructing prior distributions for a subset of these parameters from beliefs about the moments of the endogenous variables. The empirical application...
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