Three studies tested the hypothese that 1) people know very little about the extent to which colleges and universities subsidize their students and 2) providing people with subsidy information leads them to judge the prices that such schools charge as more reasonble. The results offered...

McPherson and Schapiro analyze data from the American Freshman Surveys of 1980, 1989 and 1993 to determine how family income has affected choice of institution, and how this has varied over time.

Utilizing panel data, we measure the responsiveness of student course choice to grades and asses the impact on the distribution of enrollment across departments of differences in grading policies. We show that grades strongly influence course choice; this influence remains powerful after...

A common critique of globalization is that it leads to a race to the bottom. Speci?cally, it is assumed that multinationals invest in countries with lower regulatory standards and that countries competitively undercut each other's standards in order to attract foreign capital. This paper tests...

Copper mining is among the largest economic activities in Zambia, comprising close to ten percent of GDP. Between 2003 and 2008, the price of copper increased by over 400 percent. In response, copper production in Zambia grew by 70 percent and employment in copper mining increased by nearly 200...

This paper examines the effects of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on demand for HIV testing and of ART-induced testing on demand for risky sexual behavior. I provide a model of sexual behavior decision-making under uncertainty and estimate the structural parameters of the model using nationally...