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Does Choice Increase Information? Evidence from Online School Search Behavior
Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2017
We examine whether changes in the local school choice environment affect the amount of information parents collect about local school quality, using data on over 100 million searches from greatschools.org. We link monthly data on search frequency in local "Search Units" to information on changes...
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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Online Search
Chesnes, Matthew - 2016
Beginning in 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed television advertisements to make major statements about a prescription drug, while referring to detailed drug information on the internet (FDA 1997; 2015). The hope was that consumers would seek additional information online to fully...
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Searching for Physical and Digital Media : The Evolution of Platforms for Finding Books
Baye, Michael R. - 2013
This paper provides a data-driven overview of the different online platforms that consumers use to search for books and booksellers, and documents how the use of these platforms is shifting over time. Our data suggest that, as a result of digitization, consumers are increasingly conducting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459144
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Self-Preferencing at Amazon : Evidence from Search Rankings
Farronato, Chiara; Fradkin, Andrey; MacKay, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study whether Amazon engages in self-preferencing on its marketplace by favoring its own brands (e.g., Amazon Basics) in search. To address this question, we collect new micro-level consumer search data using a custom browser extension installed by a panel of study participants. Using this...
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College choices : the economics of where to go, when to go, and how to pay for it
Hoxby, Caroline M. (contributor) - 2004
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Benevolent Colluders? The Effects of Antitrust Action on College Financial Aid and Tuition
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2000
-based aid is simply redistribution or a method of internalizing externalities among students. Many students would like colleges … would not qualify based on need. Yet, the same students might prefer a regime of need-based aid, knowing that it would apply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470996
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Peer Effects with Random Assignment : Results for Dartmouth Roommates
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2000
This paper uses a unique data set to measure peer effects among college age roommates. Freshman year roommates and dormmates are randomly assigned at Dartmouth College. I find that in this group, peer effects are very important in determining levels of academic effort and in decisions to join...
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Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College : An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables
Dale, Stacy Berg - 1999
There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …
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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?
Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999
This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...
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Information and Credible Sanctions in Curbing Online Cheating Among Undergraduates : a Field Experiment
Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test … whether informing students they have been caught cheating reduces subsequent cheating. We find informing students about our … capability to detect plagiarism has little effect on cheating. Notifying students that they have been caught cheating and are on …
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