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Public Finance in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis
Agrawal, David R.; Butikofer, Aline - 2022
education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243165
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Efficient subsidization of human capital accumulation with overlapping generations and endogenous growth
Richter, Wolfram F.; Braun, Christoph - 2010
This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth … equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is exacerbated if selfish individuals externalize the positive effect of education … on descendents' productivity. It is shown to be second best to subsidize education even relative to the first best if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270495
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Public Finance in the Era of the Covid-19 Crisis
Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022
education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470264
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Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance
Cassar, Lea; Fischer, Mira; Valero, Vanessa - 2022
business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470357
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The E-Word - On the Public Acceptance of Experiments
Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023
Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469477
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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality
Juerges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004
Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers? pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261276