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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2016

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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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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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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Image Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods

König, Tobias - 2017

Governments often provide their citizens with goods and services that are also supplied in markets: education, housing, nutritional assistance, etc. We analyze the political economy of the public provision of private goods when individuals care about their social image. We show that image...

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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods

Desmet, Klaus - 2017

interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other groups, the micro-founded theory we develop predicts that a country …

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Should Income Inequality Be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2017

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment

Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2018

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a...

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The Logic of Collective Action Revisited

Weimann, Joachim - 2018

Since Mancur Olson's “Logic of collective action” it is common conviction in social sciences that in large groups the prospects of a successful organization of collective actions are rather bad. Following Olson's logic, the impact of an individual's costly contribution becomes smaller if the...

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An Analysis of Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior Using a Model of Privately Provided Public Goods

Ibuka, Yoko - 2018

Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of others. We provide three different models of private provision of a public good, such as a joint production model and a conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive...

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