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Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes : the case of "shrinkage" estimators

Mehta, Nirav - 2017

Researchers commonly "shrink" raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation's statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility-maximizing decisionmaker, for many asymmetric information environments. The presence of an...

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Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes : the case of "shrinkage" estimators

Mehta, Nirav - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878459

Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes : the case of "shrinkage" estimators

Mehta, Nirav - 2018

Researchers commonly "shrink" raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation’s statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility-maximizing decisionmaker across common asymmetric information environments. I develop the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882236

Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes : the case of "shrinkage" estimators

Mehta, Nirav - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 4, pp. 1537-1577

Researchers commonly "shrink" raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation's statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility‐maximizing decision‐maker across common asymmetric information environments. I develop...

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Chapter 10 Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

Grossman, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 577-633). 2006

This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …

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The effect of education and investment on per capita GDP

Rahman, Dani; Rosini, Hakimlin - In: International journal of education economics and … 14 (2023) 4, pp. 391-412

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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 78 (2025) 1, pp. 86-112

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Informality and long-run growth

Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval Navarro, … - 2014

experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer … time horizons, or as the economy gets closer to the poverty trap threshold, combining means-tested education and wage …

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Schooling and national income : how large are the externalities?

Breton, Theodore R. - In: Education economics 18 (2010) 1, pp. 67-92

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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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