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The quantity and quality of teachers : a dynamic trade-off

Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2009

education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. -- Basic and college education ; skill …

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Educational standards in private and public schools

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Rocco, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2005 - Stand: Februar 2005

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

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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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Call me rep! : how unions overcame the free-rider problem

Murphy, Richard - 2017

This paper proposes an explanation of why union membership has been increasing in some occupations, despite the opportunity to freeride on traditional union benefits. I model membership as legal insurance whose demand increases with the perceived risk of allegations. Using media reports on...

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The potential output gains from using optimal teacher incentives : an illustrative calibration of a hidden action model

Mehta, Nirav - 2017

This note examines the potential output gains from the implementation of optimal teacher incentive pay schemes, by calibrating the Hölmstrom and Milgrom (1987) hidden action model using data from Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011), a teacher incentive pay experiment implemented in Andhra...

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A case for taxing education

Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Tsadḳah, Efrayim (contributor) - 2005

We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...

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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country : an optimal taxation problem with moral hazard

Cigno, Alessandro - 2010

awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income, and on the return to educational investment. It also makes school …

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Does the housing market react to new information on school quality?

Fiva, Jon H. (contributor); Kirkebøen, Lars J. (contributor) - 2008

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Estimation of welfare effects in hedonic difference-in-differences : the case in school redistricting

Ding, Xiaozhou; Bollinger, Christopher R.; Clark, Michael; … - 2023

Banzhaf (2021), we estimate the capitalization of school redistricting in a generalized DID framework that incorporates … significant differences in both the capitalization effects and welfare changes associated with the school redistricting. …

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School value-added and long-term student outcomes

Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2022

) of Norwegian schools, where between-school differences are smaller than in the US. I find that VA indicators are able to … predict in-school performance without bias. Furthermore, VA is strongly related to long-term outcomes, and differences between … differences in school quality, rather than unobserved student characteristics. Analyses of teacher grades and exam scores suggest …

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