.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 …

We present an hierarchical Bayes approach to modeling parameter heterogeneity in generalized linear models. The model … have a multivariate normal distribution. However, class membership is not known a priori, so the heterogeneity in the … synthetic data with known heterogeneity and number of sub-populations. An application is presented concerning preferences for …

value and by providing external incentives to peers to share. With regard to the latter finding, we show that without … external incentives, the level of free-riding in peer-to-peer networks will be higher than the socially optimal level, but that …