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Community Choice and Local Public Services : A Discrete Choice Approach
Nechyba, Thomas J.; Strauss, Robert P. - 2021
This paper uses a discrete choice approach to estimate the impact of local fiscal and other variables on individual community choices. It employs a combination of a unique micro data set composed of ninety percent of all homeowners in six school districts in Camden County, New Jersey and...
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Crowdsourcing City Government : Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016
Can open tournaments improve the quality of city services? The proliferation of big data makes it possible to use predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities...
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : the Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016
Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both...
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Industrial Actions in Schools : Strikes and Student Achievement
Baker, Michael - 2011
While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...
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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
), but were no different compared to foreign applicants from Britain. 2) Employers valued experience acquired in Canada much … more than if acquired in a foreign country. Changing foreign resumes to include only experience from Canada raised callback … Canada or not, or whether the applicant obtained additional Canadian education or not had no impact on the chances for an …
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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian commuter campus. The award scheme offered linear cash incentives for course grades above 70. Awards were paid every term. Program participants also had access to peer advising by...
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Shareholder Democracy in Canada
Morck, Randall - 2010
. One option, for which Canada is relatively well prepared, is the British model of activist independent institutional …
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Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010
Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the...
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Trade Liberalization in a Multinational-Dominated Industry : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis
Hunter, Linda - 2010
. Using an applied GE model, we find that (A) the gains to Mexico are significant and the effects on the US and Canada are … markets) results in large gains for Mexico as the Mexican industry is forced to rationalize, while losses to the US and Canada …
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Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada : New Knowledge from the North
Andreoni, James - 2011
charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over 6000 charities in Canada, measured for up to 15 years, to provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117887