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作者：Behrman, Jere R.; Parker, Susan W.; Todd, Petra E.; Wolpin, Kenneth I.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Rice University
摘要：This paper evaluates the impact of three different performance incentive schemes using data from a social experiment that randomized 88 Mexican high schools with over 40,000 students into three treatment groups and a control group. Treatment 1 provides individual incentives for performance on curriculum-based mathematics tests to students only, treatment 2 to teachers only, and treatment 3 gives both individual and group incentives to students, teachers, and school administrators. Program impa...
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作者：Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward
作者单位：University of Chicago; New York University
摘要：The literature on treatment effects focuses on gross benefits from program participation. We extend this literature by developing conditions under which it is possible to identify parameters measuring the cost and net surplus from program participation. Using the generalized Roy model, we nonparametrically identify the cost, benefit, and net surplus of selection into treatment without requiring the analyst to have direct information on costs. We apply our methodology to estimate the gross bene...
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作者：MaCurdy, Thomas
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This study investigates the antipoverty efficacy of minimum wage policies. Proponents of these policies contend that employment impacts are negligible and suggest that consumers pay for higher labor costs through imperceptible increases in goods prices. Adopting this empirical scenario, the analysis demonstrates that an increase in the national minimum wage produces a value-added tax effect on consumer prices that is more regressive than a typical state sales tax and allocates benefits as high...
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作者：Cunha, Flavio; Todd, Petra
作者单位：Rice University; University of Pennsylvania
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作者：Carneiro, Pedro; Loken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G.
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University College London; University of Bergen; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：We study a change in maternity leave entitlements in Norway. Mothers giving birth before July 1, 1977, were eligible for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those giving birth after that date were entitled to 4 months of paid leave and 12 months of unpaid leave. The increased time spent with the child led to a 2 percentage point decline in high school dropout rates and a 5 percent increase in wages at age 30. These effects were larger for the children of mothers who, in the absence of the reform, ...
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作者：Altonji, Joseph G.; Huang, Ching-I; Taber, Christopher R.
作者单位：Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Taiwan University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We derive a formula to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school stayers by luring the best students to other schools. The cream skimming effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice take-up rate of strong students relative to weak students, and the dependence of school outcomes on student body quality. We use the formula to investigate the cream skimming effect of hypothetical voucher programs on the high school gradu...
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作者：Blume, Lawrence E.; Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; Jayaraman, Rajshri
作者单位：Cornell University; The Santa Fe Institute; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; European School of Management & Technology
摘要：This paper provides a systematic analysis of identification in linear social interactions models. This is a theoretical and econometric exercise as the analysis is linked to a rigorously delineated model of interdependent decisions. We develop an incomplete information game for individual choice under social influences that nests standard models as special cases. We consider identification of both endogenous and contextual social effects under alternative assumptions regarding an analyst's a p...
