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A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets
He, Yinghua - 2019
Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...
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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Bandiera, Oriana - 2014
The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy
Falkinger, Josef - 2021
This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium …-rich and whether scarcity of attention complements economic scarcity. A conventional economic equilibrium results if subjects … equilibrium diversity and level of attention-seeking activities are shown. At the normative level, welfare, efficiency and optimal …
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The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice
Dur, Umut M.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Pathak, Parag A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood schools. This paper demonstrates how the precedence order, i.e. the order in which different types of seats are filled by applicants, has quantitative effects on distributional...
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
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The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence from the NYC HS Match
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Agarwal, Nikhil; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Centralized and coordinated school assignment systems are a growing part of recent education reforms. This paper estimates school demand using rank order lists submitted in New York City's high school assignment system launched in Fall 2003 to study the effects of coordinating admissions in a...
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Theory, General Equilibrium and Political Economy in Development Economics
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
equilibrium and political economy considerations. I argue that economic theory plays (should play) a central role in formulating … microdata that ignores general equilibrium and political economy issues may lead to misleading conclusions. I illustrate the …
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Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program : Evidence Using Household Panel Data
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....
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A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences are Ordinal
Stark, Holger; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2023
We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
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Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment
Lu, Hao; De Fuentes, Claudia; Milla, Joniada; Ahmadi, Soheil - 2022
Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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