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Revitalising the Silk Road : evidence from railway infrastructure investments in Northwest China

Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022

China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of the only high-speed rail (HSR) line in northwest China which connects China’s northwestern...

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High-speed railways and firms total factor productivity : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio; Ferrara, Antonella Rita; … - 2023

The focus of this study is to assess the causal impact of the connection of a local area to a high-speed rail network (HSR) on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). The quasi-random location of the HSR station in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia is exploited in a Difference-in Differences...

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The objective measurement of world-leading research

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...

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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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Does evaluating teachers make a difference?

Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019

In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...

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Inequity aversion in subjective evaluations : evidence from referees' decisions in soccer

Morabito, Leo; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2024

Subjective evaluations in many contexts might be affected by decision-makers' social preferences. To explore this phenomenon, we use data from soccer referees' decisions. According to soccer rules, referees are expected to evaluate each episode independently, without taking into account previous...

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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life : new evidence from panel data quantile regressions

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - 2009

We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...

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School responsiveness to quality rankings : an empirical analysis of secondary education in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; Wiel, Karen van der - 2010

This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a newspaper (Trouw), rather than public interventions. Our research design exploits the substantial...

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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