and a potentially pathological sign. The distinction between needs and requirements provides a new and solid ground on … which we can discuss the quality of human needs, which is, according to Keynes, a key concept to define what the economic …

family and work-life balance reasons, while men report leaving for career advancement. Finally, we show that various measures …

vehicle of analysis is a promotion-signaling model in which wages are realistically determined by market forces. We find that … overconfident workers exert more effort to be promoted, and even though they have lower expected ability conditional on promotion …

In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers …

that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year … school year to show that this pattern is caused by school: children aged 10–17 are roughly 50% more likely to be involved in … a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase …

boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the proposal of a new school. Our findings from redistricting in the Fayette … county school district (KY) show that prices for homes redistricted from a lower-performing (based on test scores) school … into the proposed school catchment area increase by six percent. For houses in higher-performing school catchment areas …

We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta …

This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …