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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274215
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696487
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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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Regional market-based climate policy in North America: Efficient, effective, fair?
Rudolph, Sven; Kawakatsu, Takeshi; Lerch, Achim - 2013
activities are more promising as British Columbia and California have started using market-based approaches recently. Against … results of the British Columbia Carbon Tax and the California Cap-and-Trade Program and evaluates them based on sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333483
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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
Chakrabarti, Ritashree; Zhang, Junfu - 2014
investigates this effect empirically using data on California municipalities. For various reasons, a simple correlation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352254
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Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2018
This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job … populated counties of California are expected to incur the largest employment loss in terms of the number of workers, the …
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What makes Napa Napa? The roots of success in the wine industry
Hira, Anil; Swartz, Tim - In: Wine Economics and Policy 3 (2014) 1, pp. 37-53
California is world-renowned for the ability to produce world class quality wine. At the center of this achievement is …-wide data on the wine industry to compare Napa's success with other wine-producing regions of California, we can control for … different historical factors and economic conditions that temper most comparative wine studies. Many regions in California can …
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