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The Effects of Mandatory and Free College Admission Testing on College Enrollment and Completion

Vansuch, Mary - 2017

Between the years 2001 and 2015, twenty-three states and the District of Columbia implemented a policy providing mandatory and free college admission exams (ACT or SAT) to all public high school juniors. As such, the policy reduced to zero out of pocket expenses for exam fees, and likely reduced...

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OLD BUT RESILIENT STORY: IMPACT OF DECENTRALIZATION ON SOCIAL WELFARE

Alberto Delgado, José Luis; Demirbaş, Dilek; Aysan, … - 2022

This paper analyses the fiscal performance of Turkey and Argentina during the period 2000 - 2021, when both countries faced rapid economic growth with the consequent impact on social welfare. This work explored two different systems: Centralization in Turkey and Federalism in Argentina and, in...

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Pensionamento flessibile e (ri)equilibrio tra generazioni

Salerno, Nicola Carmine - 2013

The paper proposes a method to speed up the transition toward the notional contributions pension system in Italy. It seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes percentages for abating the old retributive pensions...

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Asymmetric Information in Common-Value Auctions and Contests: Theory and Experiments

Rentschler, Lucas Aaren - 2010

In common-value auctions and contests economic agents often havevarying levels of information regarding the value of … contests increases relative to the case of independentprizes.Chapter III experimentally considers the role of asymmetric … asymmetric information in one-shot common-valueall-pay auctions and lottery contests from both experimental and …

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Three Essays in Auctions, Contests, and Leaderboards.

Lin, John C. - 2011

the highest level of total group effort. A theory of contests developed by Moldovanu et al. (2007) predicts that the …

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Why Budget Implementation Evaluation (BIE) is Less Prevalent in Public Finance? Lessons from Indian Experience

John, Raju - 2023

This paper is an attempt towards exploring the practice of an important yet neglected domain of public finance - Budget Implementation Evaluation (BIE).BIE means evaluating the extent to which Budget Announcements (BAs) are implemented. Its macro level evaluation regardingimplementation of BAs....

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Citizen participation in Colombia’s peacebuilding process. Analysis of the mechanisms for the participation of the victims of the armed conflict

Gamboa, Yudy - 2023

This research analyzes from a qualitative perspective, the mechanisms of participation of the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, in order to determine the type of participation that these mechanisms favor. The main collection technique used is the semi-structured interview with an...

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Tax Transfers and Demographic Transition: Empirical Evidence for 16th Finance Commission

Singh, Yadawendra; Chakraborty, Lekha - 2024

Against the backdrop of demographic transition in India, the study highlights the necessity of integrating the elderly population as a critical factor in formula-based intergovernmental fiscal transfers. The demographic transition, characterized by an increasing elderly population, imposes...

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Innovating for Sustainability: The Global Climate Hub

Koundouri, Phoebe; Alamanos, Angelos; Sachs, Jeffrey - 2024

Multiple challenges have emerged over the last decades, threatening human, socio-economic and environmental systems. Climate change impacts, degradation of limited natural resources, unsustainable demand, production and consumption practices, diseases, crises in the energy, food and biodiversity...

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Probabilistic Scenario-Based Assessment of National Food Security Risks with Application to Egypt and Ethiopia

Koundouri, Phoebe; Papayiannis, Georgios I.; … - 2023

This study presents a novel approach to assessing food security risks at the national level, employing a probabilistic scenario-based framework that integrates both Shared Socioeco-nomic Pathways (SSP) and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP). This innovative method allows each scenario,...

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