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across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …
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We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial experiences, and their judgments about the extent of their indebtedness. Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial...
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This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...
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of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 …
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We implement a survey-based randomized information treatment that generates independent variation in the inflation …
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element of random assignment, to validate a wide range of school quality estimates. We contrast the predictiveness of survey … enrollment. Survey data generate better predictions of school impacts on high school graduation than test scores. But school … quantify the practical value of test-based and survey-based school quality measures by simulating the effects of access to one …
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supervisor evaluations, student achievement, and student or family survey responses. The reform replaced salary scales based on …
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This paper develops a model of career concerns. The worker's skill is revealed through output, wage is based on expected output, and so on assessed ability. Specifically, effort increases the probability that a skilled worker achieves a one-time breakthrough. Effort levels at different times are...
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This paper analyzes the impact of market structure on career concerns. Effort increases the probability that a skilled agent achieves a one-time breakthrough. Wages are based on assessed ability and on expected output. For any wage, the agent works too little, too late. Under short-term...
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One of the fastest-growing areas of finance research is the study of managerial biases and their implications for firm outcomes. Since the mid-2000s, this strand of behavioral corporate finance has provided theoretical and empirical evidence on the influence of biases in the corporate realm,...
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