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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018
strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931942
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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice: Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582134
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Is a Uniform Price on Carbon Desirable? A Public Finance Perspective
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2024
Should climate policy rely on a price of Carbon that is uniform across sectors? This paper studies this question from a public finance perspective. It is found that a justification for a uniform price can be given, but it relies on strong assumptions, among them indifference with respect to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047203
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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice : Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; Maes, Sebastiaan; Sadeleer, Liebrecht De; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228344
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Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity: german states as a microcosm for OECD countries
Woessmann, Ludger - 2007
system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264118
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Getting Lucky: The Long-Term Consequences of Exam Luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Éric; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals' education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177604
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Getting Lucky : The Long-Term Consequences of Exam Luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300875
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Uncovering Gatsby Curves
St-Amant, Pier-André Bouchard; Garon, Jean-Denis; … - 2020
: What are Gatsby curves? When do they exist? We build a theoretical environment in which parental investment and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179848
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Optimal Redistribution in the Presence of Signaling
Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2021
We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in the latter case firms have an informational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657916
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The Legacy of Covid-19 in Education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799658