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Majority Vote on Educational Standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
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Shutting the Stable Door After the Horse Has Bolted? On Educational Risk and the Quality of Education
Schindler, Dirk - 2011
comparison to a pure (linear) income tax with income transfers from skilled to unskilled workers. Compared to a first …
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo - 2017
(equivalent to over 93 percent of the world population) from 1950 to 2014. Our results produce strong evidence for a positive …
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Will Women Save More than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be...
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The Quantity and Quality of Teachers : A Dynamic Trade-Off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2021
education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged …
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …
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Inefficient School Choice in a Long-Run Urban Equilibrium
Kamecke, Ulrich - 2014
We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants …
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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School
Cohn, Alain - 2017
cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a … common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three types of school misconduct: (i) disruptiveness in class, (ii) homework … school, suggesting that experimental measures of cheating generalize to rule violating behaviour in naturally occurring …
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Education, Disappointment and Optimal Policy
Anderberg, Dan - 2015
Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the ability distribution, may be provided by behavioural economics. We present a prototypical model where individuals who are potentially loss averse around their expected outcome...
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