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Public Good Experiment with Context : Applications to Farm Marketing Problems
Bernard, John C.; Bernard, Daria J. - 2003
The public good experiment has been used as both a teaching and research tool. In almost all instances it has been … can further student understanding of the public good experiment and its applications to real-world issues. This paper … shows how two farm marketing problems can be illustrated through the use of the public good experiment by adding context …
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Chapter 7. Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics: Opportunities and challenges
Deschenes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 285-332). 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: (i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
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Why Public Goods are a Pedagogical Bad
Woolley, Frances - 2006
radically reducing the emphasis placed on public goods in the standard undergraduate public finance curriculum, and instead … undergraduate course in public expenditures should, I argue, be to explain government spending …
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The measurement of public goods : lessons from 10 years of Atkinson in the United Kingdom
Foxton, Fred; Grice, Joseph; Heys, Richard; Lewis, James - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2019) 2, pp. 7-50
When considering issues of measuring welfare beyond gross domestic product (GDP), a key ongoing, but unfinished, agenda concerns how to measure the outputs of goods and services which are "free at the point of delivery". Public services such as schools and health services are major examples of...
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2010
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish demand. We take a differential-game approach, and derive the open-loop solution (providers choose the optimal...
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Women, schooling, and marriage in rural Philippines
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Mohammed Mehrab Bin Bakhtiar - 2011
Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
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Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision : theory and evidence from local public libraries
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2012
In both public administration and economics, efficiency is brought forward as an important criterion for evaluating administrative actions. Clearly, its value as an assessment principle depends on our ability to adequately measure efficiency. This article argues that citizen's coproduction in...
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Security gradient and national defense : the optimal choice between a draft army and a professional army
Kanniainen, Vesa; Ringbom, Staffan - 2014
The earlier work on the optimal design of the national security has focused on the opportunity cost of the draft in terms of foregone human capital formation. The current paper introduces the national security into the welfare analysis missing from the earlier work. This creates a trade-off...
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Evaluating efficient public good provision : theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2010
Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, libraries, education, police, fire protection, utilities) can be characterised by a two-stage production process. In the first stage, basic inputs (e.g., labour and capital) are used to generate service potential (e.g., opening hours,...
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