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Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers … generally and apply it to several examples. -- Wage equations ; worker evaluation ; strategic interactions ; economics of sports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793465
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life : new evidence from panel data quantile regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - 2009
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905615
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Pinning down the value of statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Woock, Christopher; … - 2007
Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561666
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How do principals assign students to teachers? : finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683231
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Conceptualizing grade inflation
Tyner, Adam; Gershenson, Seth - 2020
Evidence of grade inflation in U.S. high schools is often misinterpreted due to confusion about how grade inflation is, or should be, defined. This note clarifies the implications of recent research on grade inflation in two ways. First, we situate the evidence by defining three distinct types...
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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015
arsenic contamination of groundwater to construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347206
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Still waters run deep : groundwater contamination and education outcomes in India
Aggarwal, Khushboo; Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024
We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations … exposure to contaminants. Using self-collected survey data from public schools in Assam, one of the most groundwater …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …
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Little divergence in America : market access and demographic transition in the United States
Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022
This paper assesses the causal impact of greater market access on demographic transition during the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173243
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The performance of performance standards
Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical...
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