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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments

Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...

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Judicial Error by Groups and Individuals

Dijk, Frans van; Sonnemans, Joep H.; Bauw, Ed - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization' (2014). Volume 108, pages 224-235. In criminal cases judges evaluate and combine probabilistic evidence to reach verdicts. Unavoidably, errors are made, resulting in unwarranted conviction or...

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Status-Seeking in Violent Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This discussion paper has led to a publication in the Journal of Public Economic Theory, 15(1), 77-93. This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts...

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Structural Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates: The Impact of Sentence Reform in Virginia

Vujic, Suncica; Commandeur, Jacques; Koopman, Siem Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Virginia on reported crime rates. The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony offences … committed on or after January 1, 1995. To examine the impact of Virginia's change in legislation on reported crime rates from … Virginia. For other violent crimes such as rape and aggravated assault the evidence of a significant reduction in crime rates …

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Mostly Sunny: A Forecast of Tomorrow's Power Index Research

Kurz, Sascha; Maaser, Nicola; Napel, Stefan; Weber, Matthias - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Power index research has been a very active field in the last decades. Will this continue or are all the important questions solved? We argue that there are still many opportunities to conduct useful research with and on power indices. Positive and normative questions keep calling for...

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The Social Dilemma of Microinsurance: A Framed Field Experiment on Free-Riding and Coordination

Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Health shocks are among the most important unprotected risks for microfinance clients, but the take-up of micro health insurance typically remains limited. This paper attributes low enrolment rates to a social dilemma. Our theory is that in jointly liable groups, insurance is a public good....

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Is Transparency to no avail? Committee Decision-making, Pre-meetings, and Credible Deals

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions, if taken behind closed doors, do not promote their interests. Why else the secrecy? We provide a...

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The Outflow Ranking Method for Weighted Directed Graphs

Brink, René van den; Gilles, Robert P. - Tinbergen Instituut

A ranking method assigns to every weighted directed graph a (weak) orderingof the nodes. In this paper we axiomatize the ranking method that ranksthe nodes according to their outflow using four independent axioms. This outflowranking method generalizes the ranking by outdegree for directed...

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Separating Real Incentives and Accountability

Vieider, Ferdinand M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability—the implicit or explicit expectation of a decision maker that she may have to justify her decisions in front of somebody else—is often confounded with the incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability...

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On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper led to a chapter in .Voting Power and Procedures: Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover', (eds. R. Fara, D. Leech, and M. Salles), pp 41-64, 2014. The main purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction...

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