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tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33 government-certified high-quality universities known for superior test …
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We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village-level, allowing us to estimate its causal...
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We use new administrative data that links detailed information on Canadian student loan recipients with their repayment …
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How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect lies with positive probability. We show that the Sender lies more when the lie detection probability increases. As...
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Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Hirohito's government launching a war against the United States, or Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even if the decision is not ultimately fatal for the...
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We study how beliefs about firm value respond to public information stemming from either public announcements or …), where information is about which course of action is best for the firm. The analysis illustrates that extant work dismissing …, when homogeneous shareholders anticipate that firm decisions will be guided by information, the presence of differences in …
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characterize the equilibrium level of capture of each source by competing SIGs as well as the equilibrium level of information … learning. We show that efforts to capture an information source are strategic substitutes: citizens' skepticism of messages … substitution exacerbates horizontal differentiation so the information landscape becomes more polarized. We finally show that …
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We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise … information about her competence. The elite size and the degree of information aggregation by the elite depend on the extent to … which the median voter follows the elite's advice. A higher cost of redistribution minimizes the elite's information …
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The FDA is responsible for the approval of new drugs, biological products and medical devices in the United States. As part of the approval process, the FDA relies on advisory committees, which provide independent advice from outside experts. We combine a structural approach with newly collected...
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The increasing tension between the perceived necessity of a college degree and the challenge of paying for it has led to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today, and more different types of aid, than ever before. Half a...
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