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Reported Progress under the Student Right-to-Know Act: How Reliable Is It?

Stratton, Leslie S.; Wetzel, James N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Student Right-to-Know Act requires colleges to provide institution-specific information on graduation rates for students initially enrolling full-time in the fall term. Not all students, however, initially enroll full-time or in the fall term. We use longitudinal data on academic,...

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Lessons from the laureates

Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009

This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates (MIT Press). A goal of the lecture series is to enhance understanding of the link between biography...

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Lessons from the Laureates

Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Grogan, Louise - 2018

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule, and twenty five years of economic transition. Substantial contemporary birth masculinisation is concentrated amongst higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a...

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Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Svejnar, Jan; … - 2018

Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...

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On the Equilibrium and Welfare Consequences of 'Keeping up with the Joneses'

Gavrel, Frédéric; Rebiere, Therese - 2015

This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...

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Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

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Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection

Chugh, Sanjay K.; Merkl, Christian - 2015

This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...

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The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?

Grossman, Michael - 2015

Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may...

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