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Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2023

Recent empirical analyses reveal substantial differences in the choices of college majors between demographic and socio-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best documented and salient are the differences...

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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico

Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...

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Effects of high-achieving peers : findings from a national high school assignment system

Alkan, Ahmet; Sarpça, Sinan - 2023

Recent studies of US elite exam schools have yielded the startling conclusion that such schools improve neither educational achievement nor longer-term educational outcomes. Is the same true for exam schools elsewhere? The system in Turkey is ideal for investigating this question. There,...

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Female classmates, disruption, and STEM outcomes in disadvantaged schools : evidence from a randomized natural experiment

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2023

Recent research has shown that females make classrooms more conducive to effective learning. We identify the effect of a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the...

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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns

Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023

This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...

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Delayed action and uncertain targets : how much will climate policy cost?

Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008

Despite the growing concern about actual on-going climate change, there is little consensus about the scale and timing of actions needed to stabilise the concentrations of greenhouse gases. Many countries are unwilling to implement effective mitigation strategies, at least in the short-term, and...

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Trade model with an optimal exchange rate motivated by current discussion of a Chinese Renminbi float

Huang, Hui; Wang, Yi; Yiming, Wang; Whalley, John; … - 2005

We combine a model of combined inter-spatial and inter-temporal trade between countries recently used by Huang, Whalley and Zhang (2004) to analyze the merits of trade liberalization in services when goods trade is restricted with a model of foreign exchange rationing due to Clarete and Whalley...

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Trade liberalization in a joint spatial inter-temporal trade model

Huang, Hui (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor); … - 2005

This paper considers liberalization of trade in both inter-temporal intermediation services and goods in a joint spatial-inter-temporal trade model. Joint multi-commodity spatial intertemporal models are not (to our knowledge) used in the trade literature as general comparative statics results...

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Valuing the time of the self-employed

Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022

People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...

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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016

education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …

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