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The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales : Empirical Results

Bond, Timothy - 2018

We replicate nine key results from the happiness literature: the Easterlin Paradox, the ‘U-shaped' relation between happiness and age, the happiness trade-off between inflation and unemployment, cross-country comparisons of happiness, the impact of the Moving to Opportunity program on...

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Citations in Economics : Measurement, Uses and Impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the “Top 5” journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021

This paper shows that although the top ten percent of colleges are substantially more selective now than they were 5 decades ago, most colleges are not more selective. Moreover, at least 50 percent of colleges are substantially less selective now than they were then. This paper demonstrates that...

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Can Ranking Hospitals on the Basis of Patients' Travel Distances Improve Quality of Care?

Kessler, Daniel P. - 2021

" the system by avoiding sick and/or seeking healthy patients. In this paper, I propose an alternative approach: ranking …

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

Avery, Christopher - 2010

We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct … extends models used for ranking players in tournaments, such as chess or tennis. When a student makes his matriculation … the information contained in thousands of these wins and losses. Our method produces a ranking that would be difficult for …

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A Sharper Ratio : A General Measure for Correctly Ranking Non-Normal Investment Risks

Smetters, Kent A. - 2013

While the Sharpe ratio is still the dominant measure for ranking risky assets, a substantial effort has been made over … ranking measure which, under a regularity condition, correctly ranks risks relative to the original investor problem for a … probability distributions. This paper also explores the theoretical foundations of risk ranking, including proving a key …

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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings

Courtemanche, Charles - 2013

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...

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The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools

Chay, Kenneth Y.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Urquiola, Miguel S. - 2021

Several countries have implemented programs that use test scores to rank schools, and to reward or penalize them based on their students' average performance. Recently, Kane and Staiger (2002) have warned that imprecision in the measurement of school-level test scores could impede these efforts....

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Cities and Countries

Rose, Andrew - 2021

If one ranks cities by population, the rank of a city is inversely related to its size, a well-documented phenomenon known as Zipf's Law. Further, the growth rate of a city's population is uncorrelated with its size, another well-known characteristic known as Gibrat's Law. In this paper, I show...

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The Reappearing Masterpiece : Ranking American Artists and Art Works of the Late Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2021

A survey of the illustrations in textbooks of modern art produces the startling finding that art scholars consider Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty to be the most important individual work made by an American artist during the past 150 years. More generally, quantifying the evidence of the...

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