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The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-09)
There's a great deal of research on how classmates can affect test scores and discipline in school, but what about later in life? In Working Paper 1605, the authors look at the long-term impact of childhood peers, particularly ...
Are Charters the Best Alternative?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
What Happened to Rosie?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-02-01)
Identifying the relationship between wartime work and women’s lifetime outcomes is difficult due to scant work histories from the 1940s. This study identifies “Rosie the Riveters� using data from the 1973 Current ...
Restricted Increases in Risk Aversion and Their Application
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-02-23)
This paper proposes two restricted forms of an increase in risk aversion. Using examples from portfolio choice, self-protection and insurance demand, it is shown that these stronger notions of increased risk aversion ...
Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-03-26)
Besides risk aversion, decision makers are often assumed to be downside risk averse. In order to investigate tradeoffs that downside risk averse decision makers face, this paper proposes five stochastic orders, each ...
Risk and Risk Aversion Effects in Contests with Contingent Payments
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-03-01)
Contests by their very nature involve risk, winning and losing are both possible, and the gain from winning can itself be uncertain. The participants in a contest use resources to increase their chance of winning. The main ...
The Increase Convex Order and the Tradeoff of Size for Risk
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-02-01)
One random variable is larger than another in the increasing convex order if that random variable is preferred or indifferent to the other by all decision makers with increasing and convex utility functions. Decision makers ...
Market Concentration, Price Dispersion and Inefficient Cross-hauling in the Laboratory
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-04-01)
This paper presents experimental evidence suggesting that persistent price dispersion that violates the law of one price may be a disequilibrium phenomena. Increasing market concentration increases the pecuniary incentive ...
Vehicle Miles (Not) Traveled: Fuel Economy Requirements, Vehicle Characteristics, and Household Driving
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
Simply put, the less Americans drive, the less gas they use. More driving, more gas. The negative effects of gasoline consumption are well-documented, ranging from local effects of automobile pollution on individuals' ...
Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-08-23)
The authors exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on ...