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Defensive investments and the demand for air quality : evidence from the NOx budget program
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2017
The demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments, but little research assesses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011649120
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The Affordable Care Act and the market for higher education
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2019
Through changing the connection between insurance and employment, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has affected people's incentives to obtain education. We employ a triple-difference strategy comparing counties with different levels of uninsurance pre-ACA and in states with different Medicaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110262
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439058
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462634
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The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality : theory and evidence from a technical university
Bianchini, Stefano; Lissoni, Francesco; Pezzoni, Michele; … - 2014
We investigate the effect of both research and consulting on higher education teaching quality at the individual level … horizon, under the assumption of positive spillovers from research to both consulting opportunities and teaching, and of life … cycle effects on incentives. Propositions from the model are tested against teaching evaluation data from a mid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406281
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Innovation benefits from nuclear phase-out : can they compensate the costs?
De Cian, Enrica; Carrara, Samuel; Tavoni, Massimo - 2012
This paper investigates whether an inefficient allocation of abatement, due to constraints on the use of currently available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We focus on the case of nuclear power phase out, when...
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Compensating differentials for occupational health and safety risks : implications of recent evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
empirical research on VSL and its related concepts and link the empirical results to the on-going examinations of many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168073
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Contexts of convenience : generalizing from published evaluations of school finance policies
Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2023
Recent attention to the causal identification of spending impacts provides improved estimates of spending outcomes in a variety of circumstances, but the estimates are substantially different across studies. Half of the variation in estimated funding impact on test scores and over three-quarters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014365935
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A tale of the tails : the value of a statistical life at the tails of the age distribution
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2024
The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for the working population. Regulatory analyses often must monetize risks to populations at the tails of the age distribution. Because of the longer life expectancy for children,...
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Ending the musical chairs game in higher education : how a software dashboard (SPADIES) improved information flow and educational outcomes in Colombia
Herrera Prada, Luis Omar - 2021
Abstract The new millennium brought with it a new challenge. Students reaching higher education were not only greater in number, they were also less prepared than their predecessors. This caused a sharp deterioration in the quality of the entire higher education system, which in turn affected...
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