Income cap or threshold systems rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little … to a similar change in the income tax system. -- physicians' behavior ; income thresholds ; non-convex budget sets … is known about how physicians respond to these incentives. Conceptually, the threshold system is to physicians what an …

-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four domains, social …. Income has the lowest impact. As in other work, we find that American response styles differ from the Dutch in that Americans … inclined to stay in the middle of the scale. Although for both Americans and the Dutch, income is the least important …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less … income satisfied is the individual. Moreover, being unemployed is one of the main determinants of deprivation, although …

of students pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Sweden and the United States. The framework … attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. -- Justice theory ; fairness ; CEO compensation … ; factorial survey method ; MBA students ; gender ; inequality ; Gini coefficient ; Atkinson measure ; Theil's inequality measures …

we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …-estimate their predicted test score. However, females, white and working class students have less inflated view of themselves. Self …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …

The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students … survey students about what their expected earnings would be both in the major they have chosen and in counterfactual majors …. We also elicit students' subjective assessments of their abilities in chosen and counterfactual majors. We estimate a …

This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using … of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses. We find that good teaching matters more for the labor … best students are also the ones who boost their earnings the most. On the contrary, for low ability students the academic …