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This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...
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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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Ridder and Woutersen (2003) have shown that under a weak condition on the baseline hazard there exist root-N consistent estimators of the parameters in a semiparametric Mixed Proportional Hazard model with a parametric baseline hazard and unspecified distribution of the unobserved heterogeneity....
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We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...
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How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic non-financial incentives play an important...
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ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria than second-degree stochastic dominance. The conventional approach … rather than another.In this paper, we develop a theory for ranking distribution functions. Our theory offers a general … that give an unambiguous ranking of any set of distribution functions.We also provide an axiomatization of the sequences of …
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affect, that is, its country wellbeing ranking looks worse using negative affect than it does when using positive affect …. Combining rankings on all eight measures into a summary ranking index for 215 geographical locations we find that nine of the …
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This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
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This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and … no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To … method for identifying the least restrictive social preferences required to reach an unambiguous ranking of a given set of …
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I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them … the 2000s, I examine distributions and life cycles of citations, compare citation histories of articles in different sub … heterogeneity in productivity. Throughout, the discussion summarizes earlier work. I survey research on the impacts of citations on …
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