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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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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Market Consequences of ICT Innovations

Mang, Constantin - 2016

This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...

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Evidence of a modest price decline in US broadband services

Greenstein, Shane; McDevitt, Ryan - 2010

In this paper, we construct a price index for broadband services in the United States between 2004 and 2009. We analyze over 1500 service contracts offered by DSL and cable providers in the United States. We employ a mix of matched-model methods and hedonic price index estimations to adjust for...

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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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Does the product quality hypothesis hold true? Service quality differences between independent and exclusive insurance agents

Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda - 2007

Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is more costly. The product quality hypothesis states that independent agents provide both insurers and customers with higher service quality and therefore, remain on the market....

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Partial identification of willingness-to-pay using shape restrictions with an application to the value of a statistical life

Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2010

Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...

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Hedonic wage equilibrium: Theory, evidence and policy

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D. - 2010

We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...

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Microeconometric Evaluations of Education Policies

Siegler, Benedikt - 2015

policy to improve educational outcomes of juveniles and young adults: the provision of private school vouchers in the context … of a school accountability system to increase educational production at low-performing public schools (Chapter 2 …

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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices

Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth - 2011

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …

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