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To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...
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We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with labor shortages in low-skilled service occupations and a decline in the skill premium. Falling returns to high-skilled jobs coincided with a decline in the...
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about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …
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Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...
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CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that …
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We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in … redistributing income and affecting signalling incentives is analyzed, as well as extended tax systems that combine income taxation …
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Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods by businesses may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that...
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' productivities. We characterize the trade-offs between signaling by workers and costly information acquisition by firms. Information …In Spence's (1973) signaling by education model and in many of its extensions, firms can only infer workers … workers have low productivity. Our analysis applies also to other signaling problems, e.g. the financial structure of firms …
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show that herding behavior plays an important signaling role in reducing opportunity costs if the auction does not receive … and highlight the controversial effects of signaling mechanisms on adverse selection in crowdfunding markets. …
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and 30% to education signaling workers' ability. …
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