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Competition in Higher Education : A Survey

Kaganovich, Michael - 2020

The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...

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Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...

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Can Competition Reduce Conflict?

Garg, Teevrat; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania; … - 2023

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …-reducing effects of competition are largest in the most ethnically fractionalized and segregated villages and exist regardless of the …

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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand

Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2010

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. …

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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance : How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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Are the Elderly a Threat to Educational Expenditures?

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or...

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Public Education Expenditure, Growth and Welfare

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, Jim; … - 2021

In this paper we study the quantitative macroeconomic effects of public education spending in USA for the post-war period. Using comparable measures of human and physical capital, from Jorgenson and Fraumeni (1989, 1992a,b), we calibrate a standard dynamic general equilibrium model where human...

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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services

Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021

encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a government to a privatization agency and electoral delegation from voters to a …

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Pawns and Queens Revisited : Public Provision of Private Goods When Individuals Make Mistakes

Pirttila, Jukka; Tenhunen, Sanna - 2021

This paper analyses the optimal tax policy and public provision of private goods when individuals differ in two respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the decentralised optimum, if society's marginal valuation...

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