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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment

Elias, Julio - 2016

conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

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Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students

Arnold Lincove, Jane - 2016

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find that admissions certainty encourages college-ready...

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Defaults and Attention : The Drop Out Effect

Caplin, Andrew - 2012

When choice options are complex, policy makers may seek to reduce decision making errors by making a high quality …

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Explicit vs. Statistical Preferential Treatment in Affirmative Action : Theory and Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools

Dur, Umut Mert - 2016

Affirmative action schemes must confront the tension between admitting the highest scoring applicants and ensuring diversity. In Chicago's affirmative action system for exam schools, applicants are divided into one of four socioeconomic tiers based on the characteristics of their neighborhood....

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Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments

Brown, Jennifer - 2015

We consider how past, current, and future competition within an elimination tournament affect the probability that the stronger player wins. We present a two-stage model that yields the following main results: (1) a shadow effect--the stronger the expected future competitor, the lower the...

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Can Universal Screening Increase the Representation of Low Income and Minority Students in Gifted Education?

Card, David E. - 2015

Low income and minority students are under-represented in gifted education programs. One explanation for this pattern is that the usual process for identifying gifted students, through parent and teacher referrals, systematically misses many potentially qualified disadvantaged students. We use...

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Reducing Frictions in College Admissions : Evidence from the Common Application

Knight, Brian G. - 2019

frictions in the college admissions process and, if substantial, might ultimately limit student choice. In this paper, we study … schools, potentially reducing frictions and increasing student choice. We first document that joining the CA increases the … accepted students, consistent with increased student choice, and institutions respond to the reduced yield by admitting more …

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Does Virtual Advising Increase College Enrollment? Evidence from a Random Assignment College Access Field Experiment

Phillips, Meredith - 2019

This paper describes the effects of two variants of a virtual college-counseling intervention designed to reduce informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt...

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An Analysis of the Selection of Arbitrators

Bloom, David E. - 2007

This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...

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Insurers' Response to Selection Risk : Evidence from Medicare Enrollment Reforms

Decarolis, Francesco - 2016

Evidence on insurers' behavior in environments with both risk selection and market power is largely missing. We fill this gap by providing one of the first empirical accounts of how insurers adjust plan features when faced with potential changes in selection. Our strategy exploits a 2012 reform...

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