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The Design of Performance Pay in Education

Neal, Derek - 2011

This chapter analyzes the design of incentive schemes in education while reviewing empirical studies that evaluate performance pay programs for educators. Several themes emerge. First, it is difficult to use one assessment system to create both educator performance metrics and measures of...

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The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. - 2010

Households "sort" across neighborhoods according to their wealth and their preferences for public goods, social characteristics, and commuting opportunities. The aggregation of these individual choices in markets and in other institutions influences the supply of amenities and local public...

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Anti-Lemons : School Reputation and Educational Quality

MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2009

Friedman (1962) argued that a free market in which schools compete based upon their reputation would lead to an efficient supply of educational services. This paper explores this issue by building a tractable model in which rational individuals go to school and accumulate skill valued in a...

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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy

de la Croix, David - 2007

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data

Klapper, Leora - 2004

"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …

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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management

Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999

over the past decade both in the United States and in Europe. In response, economists have developed models to help policy …

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Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018

Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet M.; Bär, Marlies; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Inequalities in life expectancy are starker in the U.S. than in Europe. In 1990 White Americans and Europeans in rich … comparison with Europe suggests that mortality rates of both Black and White Americans could fall much further across all ages …

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The Female Happiness Paradox

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection

Cumby, Robert E. - 1984

rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …

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Patents as Options : Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks

Pakes, Ariel - 1984

In many countries holders of patents must pay an annual renewal fee in order to keep their patents in force. This paper uses data on the proportion of patents renewed, and the renewal fees faced by, post World War II cohorts of patents in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in conjunction...

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