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This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy's income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and Ramp;D investment decisions we show...
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Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
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We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
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We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
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Our research addresses fundamental long - standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its … applying panel data, a new and more accurate fatality risk measure, and systematic selection of panel estimator in our research …
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This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … evaluation of current policies. Our model clarifies a series of puzzles from the literature on the "value of life" and on …
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Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess … teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using … document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of …
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In this study, we describe the postsecondary transitions of students taking CTE courses in high school using administrative data on one cohort of high school students from Washington State. Our findings indicate that CTE students are less likely to enroll in college overall, especially four-year...
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We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data from the Annual …
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empirical research on VSL and its related concepts and link the empirical results to the on-going examinations of many …
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