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Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected leaders and parents of children enrolled in public...
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Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill (positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by...
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In this paper, we specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among health, financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men in the later part of their working lives. Unlike previous work which has typically used self reported health or disability status as a proxy...
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posit that decision makers make errors of judgement (for example, they sometimes select bad projects while rejecting good …
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children of parents who forfeit the most in terms of utility gains from proximity and racial match to choose a school with …
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ingredients: (a) decision rights can be transferred ex ante through ownership, (b) managers (and possibly workers) enjoy private …
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allocations is not rejected in models that allow more than two household members to have agency in decision-making. In contrast … decision-making within complex households.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of …
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We develop a dynamic model of board decision-making. We show that a board could retain a policy all directors agree is …
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Psychological evidence indicates that decision quality declines after an extensive session of decision-making, a … phenomenon known as decision fatigue. We study whether decision fatigue affects analysts' judgments. Analysts cover multiple … the number of forecasts the analyst has already issued increases. Also consistent with decision fatigue, we find that the …
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. In this paper, we explore the consequences of improved prediction in decision-making. To do so, we adapt existing models … of decision-making under uncertainty to account for the process of determining payoffs. We label this process of … on whether the improvements in prediction enable automated decision-making. We discuss the implications of improved …
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