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Dierkes, Meinolf - In: Volker von Thienen. Technikfolgen-Abschätzung und …, (pp. I-IV). 1983

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The impact of information presentation on the efficiency of managerial decisions

Gemünden, Hans Georg - 1986

material information will increase the efficiency of their decisions. However, production of such information is only a … necessary, but not a sufficient condition for better decision-making. One also has to secure that this information is used … quality is not only affected by content and quality of information, but also by the way how it is communicated and perceived …

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Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts

Rincke, Johannes - 2005

This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public school choice program launched in 1996. Districts' participation decisions are modelled as...

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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003

This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...

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What Next for School Vouchers?

Peterson, Paul E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 57-61

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High Grading Standards Improve Student Performance

Figlio, David N.; Lucas, E. Maurice - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 21-26

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School Choice and School Quality in the US

Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38

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Educational standards in private and public schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2005

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An alternative configuration,...

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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals

Habermalz, Steffen - 2003

This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...

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Advertising in the U.S. Personal Computer Industry

Goeree, Michelle S. - 2004

) industry. I present an empirical discrete-choice model of limited information on the part of consumers, where advertising …

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