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作者：Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J.
作者单位：Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We investigate whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to hide some of the intergenerational progress achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the United States. In part, we do this by comparing an objective indicator of Mexican descent (based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his parents and grandparents) with the standard subjective measure of Mexican self-identification (based on the respondent's answer to the Hispanic-origin question)...
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作者：Zafar, Basit
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York
摘要：This study focuses on how college students form expectations about various major-specific outcomes. For this purpose, I collect a panel data set of Northwestern University undergraduates that contains their subjective expectations about major-specific outcomes. Although students tend to be overconfident about their future academic performance, they revise their expectations in expected ways. The updating process is found to be consistent with a Bayesian learning model. I show that learning pla...
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作者：Goltsman, Maria; Mukherjee, Arijit
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); Michigan State University
摘要：Workers competing in a tournament for a prize (e.g., a promotion) often perform sequentially in multiple stages. When the firm is privately informed about the workers' performance, it can sharpen incentives by strategically disclosing the intermediate results. But the policies that enhance final-stage effort may dampen incentives at the intermediate stage. In our model, the optimal disclosure policy has a simple form: disclose only if all workers perform poorly. This result offers a novel just...
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作者：Booker, Kevin; Sass, Tim R.; Gill, Brian; Zimmer, Ron
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Vanderbilt University
摘要：We analyze the relationship between charter high school attendance and educational attainment in Florida and in Chicago. Controlling for observed student characteristics and test scores, we estimate that among students who attended a charter middle school, those who went on to attend a charter high school were 7-15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who transitioned to a traditional public high school. Similarly, those attending a charter high school were 8-...
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作者：Card, David; Ibarraran, Pablo; Regalia, Ferdinando; Rosas-Shady, David; Soares, Yuri
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We report the impacts of a job training program operated in the Dominican Republic. A random sample of applicants was selected to undergo training, and information was gathered 10-14 months after graduation. Unfortunately, people originally assigned to treatment who failed to show up were not included in the follow-up survey, potentially compromising the evaluation design. We present estimates of the program effect, including comparisons that ignore the potential nonrandomness of no-show behav...
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作者：Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter
作者单位：University of Bonn; University of Klagenfurt; University of Vienna; University of Warsaw; Warsaw School of Economics; University of Klagenfurt
摘要：We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of coworkers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the low-productivity worker derives (dis)utility not only from his own effort but also from comparing his earnings with those of the high-productivity worker, his response to the sensing of relative deprivation is to...
