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Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …
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In this paper, we study how the birth of the first universities in Italy affected the emergence of the Italian free cities-states (the commune) in the period 1000-1300 a.d. Exploiting a panel dataset of 121 cities, we show that after the foundation of a new university the distance between each...
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Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate …,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the issue of education vouchers and direct subsidies to private … schools. We find that successful attempts to move towards a more privatized education system rest mainly on pure income …
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This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
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for massive public funding of higher education. Central to the debate is the conjecture that colleges and universities use … which public investment in higher education is efficient and desirable. We analyze non-stationary equilibria of an OLG … economy, characterized by perfect capital mobility, intergenerational transfers and a hierarchical education system. The …
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This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on "peer group" effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the … public schools as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. -- education ; peer-group effects ; mixed duopoly …
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, long-term care, and higher education. …
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