.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …

with economic incentives as generated by the market system and requires changes in the market institutions to implement … problem is consistent with the underlying economic order (market system), if economic incentives to solve the problem exist … collective action are not pecuniary, this implies that the activity is not consistent with market incentives and therefore …

"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … important to identify what type of institutional arrangements can effectively align private and social incentives to promote … ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …

preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …

Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for … arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here that enhancing the norm salience role of punishment can eliminate its …