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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets

Coles, Peter - 2010

on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a signal of interest to … ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act … one employer, facilitates matches in such markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of …

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Screening with Multitasking

Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...

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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers

Non, Arjan - 2011

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...

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A Signaling Model of University Selection

Anic, Ivan; Bozin, Vladimir; Urosevic, Branko - 2021

We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under …

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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life

Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...

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Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten

Humphries, John Eric; Neilson, Christopher A.; Ye, Xiaoyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper asks whether universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) raises parents' earnings and how much these earnings effects matter for evaluating the economic returns to UPK programs. Using a randomized lottery design, we estimate the effects of enrolling in a full-day UPK program in New Haven,...

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Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay

Johnston, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

I examine teacher preferences using a discrete-choice experiment, which I link to administrative data on teacher effectiveness. I estimate willingness-to-pay for a rich set of compensation elements and working conditions. Highly effective teachers usually have the same preferences as their...

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The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact

Rose, Evan K.; Schellenberg, Jonathan T.; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates teachers' impacts on their students' future criminal justice contact (CJC). Using a unique data set linking the universe of North Carolina public school data to administrative arrest records, we find a standard deviation of teacher effects on students' future arrests of 2.7...

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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York

Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps enhancing integration. Urban school transportation is...

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U.S. School Finance : Resources and Outcomes

Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision making on school finance in both legislatures and the courts. The historical research found little consistent or systematic relationship of...

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