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The welfare effects of including household preferences in school assignment systems : evidence from Ecuador
Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; Krussig, Thomas; … - 2022
We study the welfare produced by a coordinated school assignment system that is based exclusively on minimizing distance to schools, comparing the matches it produces to a system that includes household preferences using a deferred acceptance algorithm. We leverage administrative data and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480130
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Environmental fiscal policy in an endogenous growth model with human capital
Oueslati, Walid - 2001
This paper analyses environmental fiscal policy within a two-sector endogenous growth model with elastic labour supply. Pollution is modelled as a side product of production. The framework allows us to analyse the consequences of an environmental tax on the economic dynamics. Both transitional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608679
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The value of NATO option for a new member : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Kanniainen, Vesa; Ringbom, Staffan - 2015 - June 5, 2015, The earlier draft: April 16-18, 2015
The paper introduces a welfarist approach to the national safety of a nation with membership in a defense alliance as an option. The members are risk averse but heterogeneous in their safety classification. There are two public goods as insurance devices, the domestic military budget and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280825
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Financial Education, Financial Competence, and Consumer Welfare
Ambuehl, Sandro - 2015
We introduce the concept of financial competence, a measure of the extent to which individuals' financial choices align with those they would make if they properly understood their opportunity sets. Unlike existing measures of the quality of financial decision making, the concept is firmly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025531
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Environmental Fiscal Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model with Human Capital
Oueslati, Walid - 2003
This paper analyses environmental fiscal policy within a two-sector endogenous growth model with elastic labour supply. Pollution is modelled as a side product of production. The framework allows us to analyse the consequences of an environmental tax on the economic dynamics. Both transitional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129997
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257235
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Security Gradient and National Defense - The Optimal Choice between a Draft Army and a Professional Army
Kanniainen, Vesa - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055393
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Waivers for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program : Who Would Benefit from Takeup?
Briones, Diego A.; Ruby, Nathaniel; Turner, Sarah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of Education to issue temporary waivers (which expire in October of 2022) which essentially provide a path to forgiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334426
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Chapter 1. Behavioral Economics of Education : Progress and Possibilities
Lavecchia, A.M.; Liu, H.; Oreopoulos, P. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : Volume 5, (pp. 1-74). 2016
, education has, so far, received less attention — a surprising oversight, given the field's key interest in long-run decision … behavioral economics of education. We first develop a general framework for thinking about why youth and their parents might not … always take full advantage of education opportunities. We then discuss how these behavioral barriers may be preventing some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025220
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Minimum wage compliance and household welfare : an analysis of over 1500 minimum wages
Mansoor, Kashif; O'Neill, Donal - 2020
Minimum wages are increasingly being used in developing countries as a policy to combat exploitation of workers and raise living standards. However, in many developing countries there is a substantial difference between de jure and de facto regulation. We examine the consequences of imperfect...
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