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School choice and competition
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is the leading principle of the Dutch education system...
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Obvious mistakes in a strategically simple college admissions environment
Shorrer, Ran I.; Sóvágó, Sándor - 2017
In a centralized marketplace that was designed to be simple, we identify participants whose choices are dominated. Using administrative data from Hungary, we show that college applicants make obvious mistakes: they forgo the free opportunity to receive a tuition waiver worth thousands of...
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Weighting the waiting : intertemporal social preferences
Rohde, Kirsten I. M.; Exel, N. J. A. van; Hulsen, Merel … - 2022
This paper studies intertemporal social preferences. We introduce intertemporal dictator and ultimatum games where players decide on the timing of monetary payoffs. The setting is twodimensional rather than one-dimensional, in the sense that inequalities can arise in the time as well as in the...
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School choice and competition : evidence from the Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
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The heterogeneous effects of early track assignment on cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019
Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and … too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission …
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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of … not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For … lottery numbers. Losing the admission lottery for one's first-ranked school affects the characteristics of the assigned school …
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"Let me dream on!" : anticipatory emotions and preference for timing in lotteries
Kocher, Martin; Krawczyk, Michal; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2009 - This version: September 2009
We analyze one of the explanations why people participate in lotteries. Our hypothesis stipulates that part of the value that a unit of money buys in lotteries is consumed before the actual resolution in the form of emotions such as hope. In other words, a person holding a lottery ticket may...
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Inconsistent and lexicographic choices in stated preference analysis
Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Adriana Tanneke de - 2004
In stated choice (SC) data inconsistent and lexicographic choice behavior is often observed. It is sometimes recommended to remove data with these characteristics from the analysis. In this paper we reconsider this recommendation. In our data many respondents have inconsistent choice patterns,...
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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
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Income and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of...
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