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School Systems and Efficiency and Equity of Education
Hur, Jung; Changhui, Kang - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore - 2007
of each system for efficiency and equity of education. This paper examines impacts of different systems of student …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518261
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Education as a positional good for marked-based reforms of state schooling: paper presented at the ECER 2000-conference in Edinburgh 20 - 23 September 2000
Adnett, Nick; Davies, Peter - 2000
Analyses of market-based reforms of state schooling have occasionally acknowledged positional elements in parental demand, but none has fully examined their nature and implications. Contrary to the normal predictions of orthodox economic analysis, competition in positional markets can result in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299309
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The 2019 Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools
Ryan, CJ - 2020
In 2017, we published A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools, which presented the first (intentionally) objective ranking of law schools. Other law school rankings are subjective because their purpose is to tell prospective law students where to matriculate. Our “revealed-preferences”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849868
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The 2018 Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools
Ryan, CJ - 2018
In 2017, we published A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools, which presented the first (intentionally) subjective ranking of law schools based on the revealed preferences of matriculating students. We created a subjective ranking system as an alternative to other law school rankings,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923007
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A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools
Ryan, CJ - 2018
The U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Schools Rankings” defines the market for legal education. Law schools compete to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934461
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Preferences as Human Capital: Rational Choice Theories of Endogenous Preferences and Socioeconomic Changes
Saez-Marti, Maria; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Finnish Economic Papers 21 (2008) 2, pp. 81-94
We discuss the theoretical and empirical foundations of modern economic theories of cultural transmission. The importance of cultural factors in shaping economic and social transformations has been the focus of a long-standing debate in social sciences since the XIXth Century. Neoclassical...
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Culture, Self-Orientation, and Reward Structure Effects : Measuring Cheating Behaviors in China and the USA
Rhyne, D.B.A., William J. - 2011
The research presented examines the roles of nationality, self-orientation, and reward conditions on students' willingness to cheat on a test linked to small financial rewards. Two country cultures are examined with China representing a collectivist culture and the United States representing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042572
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Education as a positional good for marked-based reforms of state schooling: paper presented at the ECER 2000-conference in Edinburgh 20 - 23 September 2000
Adnett, Nick; Davies, Peter - Forschungsinstitut für Bildungs- und Sozialökonomie (FiBS) - 2000
Analyses of market-based reforms of state schooling have occasionally acknowledged positional elements in parental demand, but none has fully examined their nature and implications. Contrary to the normal predictions of orthodox economic analysis, competition in positional markets can result in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462264
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Health disparities across education : the role of differential reporting error
Cawley, John H.; Choi, Anna - 2015
. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288528