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Identification and inference in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable
Gerard, François; Rokkanen, Miikka; Rothe, Christoph - 2015
unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428251
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Manipulation of choice behavior
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco; Tyson, Christopher J. - 2011
We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312203
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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019
effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the …, this effect disappears, suggesting that monitoring is a symptomatic treatment rather than a cure of score manipulation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106802
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The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of un-enforced or enforced party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675135
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Committee decision-making under the threat of leaks
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hahn, Volker - 2020
Leaks are pervasive in politics. Hence, many committees that nominally operate under secrecy de facto operate under the threat that information might be passed on to outsiders. We study theoretically and experimentally how this possibility affects the behavior of committee members and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295187
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Economic science and political influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683154
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Entry through the narrow door : the costs of just failing high stakes exams
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2018
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good employment prospects. This paper examines the consequences of just failing a key high stakes national examination in English taken at the end of compulsory schooling in England. It...
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Five open questions about prediction markets
Wolfers, Justin (contributor); Zitzewitz, Eric (contributor) - 2006
Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management -- in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278954
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Persuasion and gender : experimental evidence from two political campaigns
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2016
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458871
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Counting rotten apples : student achievement and score manipulation in Italian elementary schools
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Vuri, Daniela - 2014
pervasive score manipulation. Information on the fraction of manipulated data is retrieved from a natural experiment that … properties of the manipulation indicator developed by the government agency charged with test administration and data collection …. We additionally assume that manipulation is more likely in those classes at the lower end of the distribution of true …
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