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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
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public goods. We examine how health insurance coverage affects the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD … little change in ASD identification, the mandate crowds-out special education supports for students with ASD by shifting …
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on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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categorise leadership skills included in the existing literature and associate them with tasks, management level, and leadership … findings, we contribute new insights to the leadership literature and derive practical implications …
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, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women … leaders, we find that sorting into leadership is not related to individual honesty preferences. In the control we find that … leadership, as they align dishonest behavior with their belief on group members’ honesty preferences …
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In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with local interaction. The steady states of a dynamic best-response process can feature a coexistence of Pareto dominant and risk dominant actions in the population. The existence...
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Using an online experiment with two distinct dishonesty games, we analyze how dishonesty in men and women is influenced by either thinking or learning about the dishonesty of others in a related, but different situation. Thinking is induced by eliciting a belief about others’ dishonesty in a...
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In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …
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This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....
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