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Center for Economic Studies
About: Center for Economic Studies is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Tax reform & Indirect tax. The organization has 1038 authors who have published 6999 publications receiving 250972 citations. The organization is also known as: CES.
Topics: Tax reform, Indirect tax, Value-added tax, Wage, Monetary policy
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TL;DR: The authors disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools, and estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects.
Abstract: Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools. Unique matched panel data from the Harvard/UTD Texas Schools Project permit distinguishing between total effects and the impact of specific, measured components of teachers and schools. While schools are seen to have powerful effects on achievement differences, these effects appear to derive most importantly from variations in teacher quality. A lower bound suggests that variations in teacher quality account for at least 7« percent of the total variation in student achievement, and there are reasons to believe that the true percentage is considerably larger. The subsequent analysis estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects. It identifies a few systematic factors a negative impact of initial years of teaching and a positive effect of smaller class sizes for low income children in earlier grades but these effects are very small relative to the effects of overall teacher quality differences.
3,882 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide any material benefits for the punisher, and they also show that free riding causes strong negative emotions among cooperators.
Abstract: This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide any material benefits for the punisher. The more free riders negatively deviate from the group standard the more they are punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels because potential free riders face a credible threat. We show, in particular, that in the presence of a costly punishment opportunity almost complete cooperation can be achieved and maintained although, under the standard assumptions of rationality and selfishness, there should be no cooperation at all. We also show that free riding causes strong negative emotions among cooperators. The intensity of these emotions is the stronger the more the free riders deviate from the group standard. Our results provide, therefore, support for the hypothesis that emotions are guarantors of credible threats.
3,465 citations
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TL;DR: Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, the authors estimate a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for the US economy using seven macroeconomic time series, incorporating many types of real and nominal frictions and seven types of structural shocks.
Abstract: Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we estimate a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for the US economy using seven macro-economic time series. The model incorporates many types of real and nominal frictions and seven types of structural shocks. We show that this model is able to compete with Bayesian Vector Autoregression models in out-of-sample prediction. We investigate the relative empirical importance of the various frictions. Finally, using the estimated model we address a number of key issues in business cycle analysis: What are the sources of business cycle fluctuations? Can the model explain the cross-correlation between output and inflation? What are the effects of productivity on hours worked? What are the sources of the "Great Moderation"?
3,155 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions and employed a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included variables.
Abstract: This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included variables. The weights applied to individual regressions are justified on Bayesian grounds in a way similar to the well-known Schwarz criterion. Of 32 explanatory variables we find 11 to be robustly partially correlated with long-term growth and another five variables to be marginally related. Of all the variables considered, the strongest evidence is for the initial level of real GDP per capita.
1,953 citations
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TL;DR: This article examined the patterns of postentry employment growth and failure for over 200,000 plants that entered the U. S. manufacturing sector in the 1967-1977 period and found that plant failure rates decline with size and age as do the growth rates of nonfailing plants.
Abstract: This paper examines the patterns of postentry employment growth and failure for over 200,000 plants that entered the U. S. manufacturing sector in the 1967–1977 period. The postentry patterns of growth and failure vary significantly with observable employer characteristics. Plant failure rates decline with size and age as do the growth rates of nonfailing plants. The expected growth rate of a plant, which depends on the net effect of these two forces, declines with size for plants owned by single-plant firms but increases with size for plants owned by multiplant firms.
1,603 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Eric A. Hanushek | 109 | 449 | 59705 |
Paul A. Samuelson | 89 | 395 | 58800 |
Anthony B. Atkinson | 83 | 359 | 39393 |
Avinash Dixit | 80 | 228 | 47495 |
Axel Dreher | 78 | 350 | 20081 |
Peter A. Diamond | 75 | 243 | 27940 |
Jan K. Brueckner | 74 | 268 | 18612 |
Peter Egger | 72 | 457 | 17654 |
Stephen J. Turnovsky | 69 | 430 | 15797 |
Jakob de Haan | 67 | 416 | 15136 |
Frank Smets | 67 | 193 | 22735 |
John Whalley | 63 | 632 | 18810 |
Ronald MacDonald | 62 | 385 | 14246 |
Willem H. Buiter | 62 | 362 | 12914 |
Paul De Grauwe | 62 | 487 | 14878 |