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Grade expectations : rationality and overconfidence
Magnus, Jan R.; Peresetsky, Anatoly A. - 2017
Overconfidence seems to be an essential aspect of human nature, and one way to study overconfidence is to consider students' forecasts of their exam grades. Part of a student's grade expectation is based on the student's previous academic achievements; what remains can be interpreted as...
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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance
Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018
We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...
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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis
Haan, Monique de - 2008
This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...
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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis
Haan, Monique de - 2008
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Birth order, family size and educational attainment
Haan, Monique de - 2005
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Dynamic complementarity in skill production : evidence from genetic endowments and birth order
Muslimova, Dilnoza; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Rietveld, … - 2020
The birth order literature emphasizes the role of parental investments in explaining why firstborns have higher human capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth order as a proxy for investments and interact it with genetic endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in...
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Birth order, family size and educational attainment
Haan, Monique de - 2005
number of children are twins at last birth and the sex mix of the first two children. The effect of birth order is identified … estimated effects confound birth order with family size. No significant effect of the number of children on educational … between children from higher or lower educated parents. Also the age gap between children does not affect the effect of birth …
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Good or bad? Short- versus long-term effects of multigrading on child achievement
Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Chuard, Patrick; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; … - 2022
This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students …
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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995
Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023
,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …
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Sequential auctions, price trends, and risk preferences
Hu, Audrey; Zou, Liang - 2014
We analyze sequential Dutch and Vickrey auctions where risk averse, or risk preferring, bidders may have heterogeneous risk exposures. We derive and characterize a pure strategy equilibrium of both auctions for arbitrary number of identical objects. A sufficient, and to certain extent necessary,...
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