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A micro-foundation for non-deterministic contests of the logit form

Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005

In models of non-deterministic contest, players exert irreversible effort in order to increase their probability of winning a prize. The most prominent functional form of the win probability in the literature is the so-called logit" contest success function. We provide a simple micro-foundation...

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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...

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Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2007

education, determinants of the demand for services of the PTCs, cost of PTCs and evidence on the effectiveness of PTCs …

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Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2004

. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …

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The legacy of Covid-19 in education

Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children\'s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s...

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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student\'s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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The German Federal Court of Audit's observations of and comments on tax administration and tax compliance

Schöbel, Enrico - 2006

Auditing institutions, such as the German Federal Court of Audit (BRH), provide information on public revenue and public spending. The question of how to increase tax compliance has been of frequent interest. Unfortunately, information from German taxpayers? declaration behaviour (beyond the...

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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime : Evidence from the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih; Weel, Bas ter - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...

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Proxy wars

Konyukhovskiy, Pavel V.; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct conflicts, which are costly and entail a higher level of uncertainty, governments may opt for proxy wars, which may last longer, but are less costly and render them more immune to...

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