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Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information : Implications for Horizontal Mergers

Sweeting, Andrew; Tao, Xuezhen; Yao, Xinlu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

variables, such as their marginal costs, and can use prices to signal information to rivals. In a dynamic game, signaling can …We model differentiated product pricing by firms that possess private information about serially-correlated state … raise prices significantly above static complete information Nash levels even when the privately observed state variables …

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Persuasion in Medicine : Messaging to Increase Vaccine Demand

Alsan, Marcella; Eichmeyer, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

High-value preventive care is often underutilized. We study persuasion regarding the medical benefits of influenza vaccination by experimentally varying race concordance between sender and receiver, and, among Black respondents, a discordant sender's acknowledgement of historical injustice and...

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2005

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our research design is very similar to studies for various other countries, we find very different...

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The Effect of College Curriculum on Earnings : Accounting for Non-Ignorable Non-Response Bias

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2004

We link information on the current earnings of college graduates from many cohorts to their high-school records, their …

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Are There Civic Returns to Education?

Dee, Thomas S. - 2003

The hypothesized effects of educational attainment on adult civic engagement and attitudes provide some of the most important justifications for government intervention in the market for education. In this study, I present evidence on whether these externalities exist. I assess and implement two...

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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

Carneiro, Pedro - 2003

a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these …

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How Does For-profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?

Armona, Luis - 2018

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...

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Learning and Earning : An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions

Riehl, Evan - 2016

This paper explores the implications of measuring college productivity in two different dimensions: earning and learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security records to students' performance on a national college...

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?

Aizer, Anna - 2016

We construct a unique individual-level longitudinal dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions of lead from even historically low levels have...

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