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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …

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Competition in higher education : a survey

Kaganovič, Michail I.; Sarpça, Sinan; Su, Xuejuan - 2020

The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...

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Civic capital in two cultures : the nature of cooperation in Romania and USA

Ellingsen, Tore; Herrmann, Benedikt; Nowak, Martin A.; … - 2012 - This version: November 2012

We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards and punishments. U.S. groups perform well because...

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The words that keep people apart : official language, accountability and fiscal capacity

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Foresta, Alessandra; Ricciuti, … - 2020

This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The main hypothesis is that if the average citizen...

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I spy with my little eye... a banking crisis : early warnings and incentive schemes in banks

Hakenes, Hendrik; Schlegel, Friederike - 2014

incentives to implement such a trigger? We construct a theoretical model of a bank that is financed with debt and equity, and a …. However, we show that the board may implement a contract with insufficient incentives to communicate a warning, as refinancing …

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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002

&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after having …

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Fractional integration and cointegration in US financial time series data

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2011

This paper examines several US monthly financial time series data using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The univariate analysis based on fractional integration aims to determine whether the series are I(1) (in which case markets might be efficient) or alternatively I(d) with...

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Out of work and into school : labor market policies and college enrollment during the Great Recession

Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - 2014

The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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How does for-profit college attendance affect student loans, defaults and labor market outcomes?

Armona, Luis; Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2019

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...

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