This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on … interpretation of the results. We start by considering the estimation of the returns to education both within the context of a … of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

important justifications for government intervention in the market for education. In this study, I present evidence on whether …

more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter …

theoretical framework and assess whether the behavior of voters is consistent with sincere voting in U.S. national elections in … the post-war period. We find that by and large sincere voting can explain virtually all of the individual …-level observations on voting behavior in presidential and congressional U.S. elections in the data …

We study the properties of the group-based model of voting in elections with more than two candidates. We consider two … equilibria under both rules and identify the features of an election that favor different types of voting behavior: either … sincere voting or coordination behind a limited number of candidates. Comparing plurality and majority runoff, we find that …

For voters with quot;socialquot; preferences, the expected utility of voting is approximately independent of the size … show that rational socially-motivated voting has a feedback mechanism that stabilizes turnout at reasonable levels (e …