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Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification

Halac, Marina - 2016

principal chooses a permissible action set as a function of the audit decision and result. We show that if the audit cost is … instead prefer auditing only intermediate actions. However, if the principal cannot commit to inefficient allocations … following the audit decision and result, TEC is always optimal. Our results provide a theoretical foundation for the use of TEC …

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The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health : Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania

Malamud, Ofer - 2018

This paper examines a schooling expansion in Romania which increased educational attainment for successive cohorts born …

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Interactions between Family and School Environments : Evidence on Dynamic Complementarities?

Malamud, Ofer - 2016

This paper explores whether conditions during early childhood affect the productivity of later human capital investments. We use Romanian administrative data to ask if the benefit of access to better schools is larger for children who experienced better family environments because their parents...

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General Education vs. Vocational Training : Evidence from an Economy in Transition

Malamud, Ofer - 2010

This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which …

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Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital

Malamud, Ofer - 2010

outcomes. We collected survey data from households who participated in a unique government program in Romania which allocated …

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School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups

Malamud, Ofer - 2011

. This paper exploits an educational reform in Romania to examine the impact of postponing tracking on the proportion of …

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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications

Ambrosini, William - 2011

and wages in Romania …

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Going to a Better School : Effects and Behavioral Responses

Pop-Eleches, Cristian - 2011

. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the context of Romania …

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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Eichengreen, Barry; Rühl, Christof - 2021

, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …

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Information, Preferences, and Household Demand for School Value Added

Ainsworth, Robert; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, … - 2022

This paper examines the roles that information and preferences play in determining whether households choose schools with high value added. We study Romanian school markets using administrative data, a survey, and an experiment. The administrative data show that, on average, households could...

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