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Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation …

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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Kosfeld, Michael - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

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Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition Among University Students

Bigoni, Maria - 2011

characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …

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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete

Bartling, Björn - 2011

The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...

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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...

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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector

Charlot, Olivier - 2012

We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies

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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children, lowering the return to native education and discouraging...

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Anti-Lemons : School Reputation, Relative Diversity, and Educational Quality

MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2012

can explain several puzzling findings in the economics of education, including the fact that competition can, but does not …

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition : An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …

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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas - 2012

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

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