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The effect of university attended on graduates' labour market prospects : a field study of Great Britain

Drydakis, Nick - 2016

Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...

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Measuring performance: ranking state success over two decades in India

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021

This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...

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Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves

Aaberge, Rolf (contributor) - 2008

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and … no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To … method for identifying the least restrictive social preferences required to reach an unambiguous ranking of a given set of …

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A simple GMM estimator for the semi-parametric mixed proportional hazard model

Bijwaard, Govert; Ridder, Geert - 2009

Ridder and Woutersen (2003) have shown that under a weak condition on the baseline hazard there exist root-N consistent estimators of the parameters in a semiparametric Mixed Proportional Hazard model with a parametric baseline hazard and unspecified distribution of the unobserved heterogeneity....

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Robust inequality comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and … no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …

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Citations in economics : measurement, uses and impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the "Top 5" journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...

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First-place loving and last-place loathing : how rank in the distribution of performance affects effort provision

Gill, David; Kissová, Zdenka; Lee, Jaesun; Prowse, … - 2015

Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion and symbolic awards depend on the rank of workers in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever firms use rank-order relative-performance evaluation, workers receive feedback about their rank. Using a real-effort...

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Modeling area-level health rankings

Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...

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What you don't know... can't hurt you? : a field experiment on relative Performance feedback in higher education

Azmat, Ghazala; Bagues, Manuel F.; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2016

This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by using a randomized control experiment. This information was updated every six months during a three-year period. In the absence of treatment, students' underestimate their...

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