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Although higher status or income rank is known to generate hedonic pleasure, little is known about the search for rank information. We report an experiment eliciting rank beliefs and providing rank …
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We turn the zero-profit condition that is typically used to determine the number of firms into a game of entry/exit. We assume that identical firms compete in Cournot fashion, and when market …
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We quantify the effect of education on mortality using a linkage of the full count 1940, 2000, and 2010 US census files and the Numident death records file. Our sample is composed of children aged …
Finland’s success in international student comparisons is often attributed to the quality of its teachers. In this paper I examine the teacher selection process in Finland and highlight three key new …
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