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The Effects of Widespread Online Education on Market Structure and Enrollment
Nano Barahona, University of California, Berkeley
We examine the rapid growth of Brazil's for-profit online higher education sector and its impact on market structure and enrollment....
A Theory of Choice Overload
Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University
This paper revisits the classic Pandora’s box problem, studying a decision-maker (DM) who seeks to minimize her maximal ex-post regret....
Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption and Savings Behavior
Joel Flynn, Yale University
When optimizing consumption-savings decisions is costly, people may instead rely on quick-fixes, simple policy functions that avoid these...
An 'Austrian' Model of Global Value Chains
Pol Antràs, Harvard University
I develop a stylized model of multi-stage production in which the time length of each stage is endogenously determined. Letting the...
A Pairwise Differencing Distribution Regression Approach for Network Models
Gabriela Szini, Tilburg University
A novel estimation method for distribution regressions in a network setting is proposed. It considers the effects of covariates on the...
SEARCH AND BIASED BELIEFS IN EDUCATION MARKETS
Christopher Neilson, Yale University
This paper asks how search costs, limited awareness of schools, misperceptions of schools’ attributes, and inaccurate beliefs over unknown...
Nonlinear Fixed Points and Stationarity: Economic Applications
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Bocconi University
We consider the fixed points of nonlinear operators that naturally arise in games and general equilibrium models with endogenous networks,...
Who Chooses and Who Benefits? The Limits of Decentralized Choice
Christopher Campos, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The majority of U.S. public school districts now offer school choice programs that allocate seats using a centralized algorithm but with...
Double Robustness of Local Projections and Some Unpleasant VARithmetic
Mikkel Plagborg-Moller, Princeton University
We consider impulse response inference in a locally misspecified vector autoregression (VAR) model. The conventional local projection (LP)...
