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Washington meets Wall Street : a closer examination of the presidential cycle puzzle
Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Rijsbergen, David; … - 2008
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Washington meets Wall Street : a closer examination of the presidential cycle puzzle
Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Rijsbergen, D.; Sluis, … - 2009
This paper tests the policitcal dimensions of the presidential cycle effect in U.S. financial markets. The presidential cycle effect states that average stock market returns are significantly higher in the last two years compared to the first two years of a presidential term. We confirm the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377245
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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers : spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes
Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022
Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an experimental analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386457
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Spillovers in fields of study: siblings, cousins, and neighbors
Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023 - This version: September 2023
We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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Same work, lower grade? : student ethnicity and teachers' subjective assessments
Ewijk, Reyn van - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382659
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The effects of student feedback to teachers : evidence from a field experiment
Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as...
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Value of time by time of day : a stated-preference study
Tseng, Yin-yen; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2007 - This version: 07/11/07
This paper proposes an alternative, dynamic framework for estimatingtime-varying values of travel time savings and … values of schedule delay, in whichtime-preferences are represented as the time-varying excess willingness to pay(EWPT) to … being in the one location, over being elsewhere. It is shown how theconventional linear model, with time-independent values …
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