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Economists sometimes interpret the failure of a significance test to disconfirm a hypothesis as evidence that this hypothesis is valid. Six examples of this are cited from recent journals. But this is a misinterpretation of what significance tests show. While in general it is correct that every...
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Making use of restrictions imposed by equilibrium, theoretical progress has been made on the nonparametric and semiparametric estimation and identification of scalar additive hedonic models (Ekeland, Heckman, and Nesheim, 2002) and scalar nonadditive hedonic models (Heckman, Matzkin, and...
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receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the … also find that pro-vision of feedback reduces the gap between teachers. self-assessment and students. assessment, but only … of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a …
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government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected … individual performance feedback three times over one year resulted in a 25% increase in daily signups, compared to otherwise … information included in the treatments helpful and encouraging. However, performance feedback without benchmark information …
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For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...
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We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax,...
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This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of choice in the educational system. The findings indicate clear opposition to the use of taxpayer money to fund private schools, while free choice between public schools seems to...
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