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School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood schools. This paper demonstrates how the precedence order, i.e. the order in which different types of seats are filled by applicants, has quantitative effects on distributional...
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We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
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contingencies to asset markets. In some models, these contingencies can be used by consumers to achieve the same equilibrium … allocations as in models with complete markets. In particular, the equilibrium allocation in the debt constrained model of Kehoe … and Levine (2001) can be implemented in a model with bankruptcy and collateral. The equilibrium allocation is constrained …
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We study a model designed to understand the concept of unbalanced growth. We define leading sectors to be those that raise the profits from industrialization for other sectors the most. We identify the leading sectors and show that subsidizing them in sequences will raise welfare if the future...
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unemployment) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large temporary shocks initiate … the highunemployment regime was the unique equilibrium outcome. …
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This paper explores a series of general-equilibrium models in which people can choose to be either producers or …
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This essay reviews the family of models that seek to provide aggregate risk based explanations for the empirically observed equity premium. Theories based on non-expected utility preference structures, limited financial market participation, model uncertainty and the small probability of...
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We characterize equilibria with endogenous debt constraints for a general equilibrium economy with limited commitment … equilibrium debt limits must satisfy a simple condition that allows agents to exactly roll over existing debt period by period …. Second, we provide an equivalence result, whereby the resulting set of equilibrium allocations with self-enforcing private …
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extend the characterization of efficient allocations. Second, we present an equilibrium concept with complete markets and … sharing. We show a version of the classical welfare theorems for this equilibrium definition. We characterize the pricing …
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agents from defaulting. We present a simple example for which efficient allocations and all equilibrium elements are …
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