This paper develops an Excel model – useful to students, academics, and business professionals - that values the impact of government driven increases in temporary first-year depreciation allowances, known as bonus depreciation. Bonus depreciation is a temporary measure that has been used as a...

The Competition Game creates an environment in which individual teams must make decisions based on possibly imperfect information and with conflicting goals. The game consists of several independent rounds that may be conducted separately or in series. This gives the instructor the flexibility...

This paper studies the effects of open-enrolment on student performance in the context of an admission reform in Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on...

Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected leaders and parents of children enrolled in public...

We analyze the implication of time-inconsistent preferences in educational decision making and corresponding policies using a structural dynamic choice model. Based on a novel identification approach, we exploit variation in average years invested in degree attainment through various educational...

This article examines the implementation of a set of compulsory IT-based, self-scored, and adaptive nationwide tests in a low-stakes accountability system. We exploit exogenous variation resulting from students voluntarily retaking the nationwide test after the IT system was down for ten days....

This paper examines how college initiatives that ascribe public recognition or written reprimand to a set standard of academic performance impact students' decision-making. Many colleges utilize programs such as the Dean’s list and academic probation policies as mediums to encourage student...