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The market design approach to teacher assignment : evidence from Ecuador
Elacqua, Gregory; Westh Olsen, Anne Sofie; Velez-Ferro, … - 2021
for the school system. However, in contrast to the Boston case, we nd the benefits stem from increasing the competition …
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Juvenile delinquency and conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729273
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Crime, punishment, and schooling decisions : evidence from Colombian adolescents
Ibáñez, Ana María; Rodríguez, Catherine; Zarruk, David - 2013
influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … group attend school decreased following the change in the juvenile justice system. This effect is stronger for boys from …
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The impact of juvenile conviction on human capital and labor market outcomes
Golan, Limor; Hai, Rong; Wabiszewski, Hayley - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803328
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Public security vs. private self-protection : optimal taxation and the social dynamics of fear
Antoci, Angelo; Sacco, Pier Luigi; Sodini, Mauro - 2010
In this paper, we develop a simple model of social dynamics governing the evolution of strategic self-protection choices of boundedly rational potential victims facing the threat of prospective offenders in a large population with random matching. We prove that individual (and socially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728818
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Visitas domiciliarias a escala y desarrollo infantil
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669007
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Time-separable utility, leisure and human capital accumulation: what new implications for the environment-growth nexus?
Pautrel, Xavier - 2009
Using a time-separable utility function where leisure is introduced through the disutility of working time and is … harmful for growth. A tighter environmental tax reduces the incentives to educate by increasing leisure time and lowers the … presence of leisure, the environmental tax does not affect human capital accumulation if the source of pollution is output …
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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2013
substantial leisure complementarity, and specifically cut the non-usual component of their workweek, leaving usual hours unchanged …
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A joint approach to modeling the demand for health care, leisure, and other commodities
Meyerhoefer, Chad D. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002176211
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Estimating the value of travel time to recreational sites using revealed preferences
Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, Ian; Ferrini, Silvia - 2013
The opportunity Value of Travel Time (VTT) is one of the most important parts of the total cost of recreation day-trips and arguably the most difficult to estimate. Most studies build upon the theoretical framework proposed by Becker's (1965) by using a combination of revealed and stated...
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