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Finding an instrument that is orthogonal to the disturbance term in the wage equation has been a topic of great deal of debate. Recently, Chesson et al. (2006) proposed that higher discount rates are significantly associated with a range of sexual behaviours, including having sex before age of...
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This paper investigates the rates of return and the risks of different types of educational paths after compulsory education. We distinguish a purely academic educational path from a purely vocational path and a mixed path with loops through both systems. To study the labor market outcome we...
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Priority structures are uncertain in real-life college admissions markets. This study investigates how information … structures on priority affect resulting allocations. To do this, we focus on a class of real-life information structures that are … outcomes. The applications include both multiple-sender persuasion and information design. The results indicate that …
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This paper is concerned with the business cycle dynamics in search-and-matching models of the labor market when agents …
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flows and reduces their required risk premia. The logic is that more information leads necessarily to more certainty, and … logic shows that the best available information can often leave decision makers less certain about future events. And for … those cases where information indeed brings great certainty, conventional mean-variance asset pricing models imply that more …
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We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...
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This paper shows that, contrary to common beliefs, the real options effect of uncertainty plays no role in the long run rate of investment. This is proven for both the standard investment model with Cobb-Douglas production and Brownian motion demand, and also for a broader class of models with...
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