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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2022
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study 'Potterian economics', the economic ideas, insights, and...
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785714
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Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools: Evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts
Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, … - 2018
Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...
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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321147
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Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts
Tyler, John H. - 2002
This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment
Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...
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Correcting mistakes: Cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States
Elinder, Mikael - 2009
Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...
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Education and democratic preferences
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009
This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278288
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Actors, Decision-making, and Institutions in Quantitative System Modelling
De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; van … - 2017
Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...
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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?
de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2010
In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We … match samples of treated individuals, in adult education 1986-1989, and untreated on the propensity score. The timing of …
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