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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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Publications: German economic research institutes on track
Ketzler, Rolf (contributor);  … - 2007
themselves. Based on publications in academic journals, the central criterion of research evaluation, research output has … previous literature. -- Economic research institutes ; research evaluation ; publication measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656880
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194755
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427822
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Rank incentives and social learning : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Dobrescu, Loretti Isabella; Faravelli, Marco; … - 2019
In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university students, we provide real-time private feedback on relative performance in a semester-long online assignment. Within this setup, our experimental design cleanly identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026133
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Drivers of the underground economy around the millienium : a long term look for the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
bigger government reduced it, with the effects of inflation being statistically insignificant. Politically, the efficacy of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694815
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Some evidence on the importance of sticky wages
Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - 2010
consumer price inflation rate. -- Wage stickiness ; micro-level evidence ; measurement error …
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …
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Carrot and stick? : impact of a low-stakes school accountability program on student achievement
Woo, Seokjin; Lee, Soohyung; Kim, Kyunghee - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Economics Letters
A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no direct punishment scheme for recipients who do not exhibit...
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
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