People with disability face considerable difficulty participating fully in work and the wider community, due in part to poor schooling outcomes. To enable students with disability to meet their potential, the governments provide extra funding to schools to help them meet their special learning...

The effects of credit constraints on university participation are investigated in a setting where income contingent tuition loans are available to students. Students most likely to face credit constraints have the same or higher probability of attending university as all other students, given...

This paper is a preliminary examination of a recently available translation of Attilio da Empoli’s 1926 Theory of Tax Incidence. This work has remained practically unknown to English readers despite considerable recognition in Italian and German journals. Compares and contrasts da Empoli and...

This paper is a preliminary examination of a recently available translation of Attilio da Empoli’s 1926 Theory of Tax Incidence. This work has remained practically unknown to English readers despite considerable recognition in Italian and German journals. Compares and contrasts da Empoli and...

This paper studies a class of ranking and selection problems faced by a company that wants to identify the most preferred product out of a finite set of alternatives when consumer preferences are a priori unknown. The only information available is that consumer preferences satisfy two key...

We explore the phenomena of game companies offering to pay users in "virtual" benefits to take actions in-game that earn the game company revenue from third parties. Examples of such "incentivized actions" include paying users in "gold coins" to watch video advertising and speeding in-game...

Attribute-based pricing---giving a price to potential product attributes individually and allowing customers to choose the attributes that form the final product---has been shown to improve customer satisfaction in the hospitality industry. In this paper, we consider the problem of finding...