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Students' Social Origins and targeted Grade Inflation
Tampieri, Alessandro - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2013
analyse grade inflation in a setting where students differ in social background, a firm decides its hiring strategy and the … opportunities of disad- vantaged students compared to advantaged students. This result emerges since the school has an incentive in … inflating grades for a larger proportion of students coming from an advantaged social background, …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095242
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RETURNS TO SCHOOLING: SKILLS ACCUMULATION OR INFORMATION REVELATION?
Koch, Steven F.; Ntege, S. Ssekabira - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2008
This paper explores the degree to which imperfect information in the labour market regarding worker quality is likely to impact employment opportunities, as well as the wages associated with those opportunities. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary empirical evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976941
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Returns to Schooling: Skills Accumulation or Information Revelation?
Koch, Steve F; Ntege, Ssekabira - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
This paper explores the degree to which imperfect information in the labour market regarding worker quality is likely to impact employment opportunities, as well as the wages associated with those opportunities. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary empirical evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563296
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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling
Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether … signalling effect of individual and institutional quality of study on individual horizontal match quality. First, based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990942
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Einkommensdifferenziale zwischen Bachelor- und Diplomabsolventen - Humankapital oder Signal?
Dill, Verena; Hammen, Anke - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2011
this gap? Economic theory offers two contrary theories: human capital and signalling. Both theories claim a positive … restructuring from diplom- to bachelor-graduates) as a quasi- experimental setting. Our study shows that signalling effects are …
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The Day Care Assignment: A Dynamic Matching Problem
John Kennes Jr.; Daniel Monte Jr.; Norovsambuu … - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 362-406
We study the problem of centralized allocation of children to public daycare centers, illustrated by the case of Denmark. Our framework applies to problems of dynamic matching in which there is entry and exit of agents over time; for example, the school choice problem once student mobility is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949149
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Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin
Blimpo, Moussa P. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 90-109
cheaply and with administrative data. The first design is a standard incentive structure where students receive monetary … rewards for reaching a performance target. In the other two designs, teams of four students receive incentives based on either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949173
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Honest grading, grade inflation and reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2012
When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any …
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Honest Grading, Grade Inflation and Reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955208
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Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices
Firpo, Sergio; Ponczek, Vladimir; Possebom, Vítor Augusto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test...
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