We study the impact of providing school report cards with test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of our sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11...

In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob das Lebens-Einkommens-Profil von Hochschulabsolventen stärker von Berufserfahrung oder von betrieblichen Senioritätsregelungen beeinflußt wird. Datenbasis ist die "Konstanzer Absolventenbefragung von Verwaltungswissenschaftlern", die im Frühjahr 1992...

The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However, the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...

"This paper examines the effect of accumulated human capital, and particularly occupational human capital, on the earnings losses of displaced workers. Unlike most of the previous studies of job displacement, this paper uses a continuous measure of occupational skills transferability to measure...