A Pallais… - National Tax Journal, 2006 - scholar.harvard.edu
Abstract: Whether the nation's most selective and resource-intensive colleges and
universities serve as “engines of opportunity” rather than “bastions of privilege” depends on
the extent to which they increase the educational attainment of students from the most ...
A Pallais… - Economic inequality and higher education …, 2007 - books.google.com
STUDENTS FROM relatively low-income families are persistently underrepresented in the
most selective institutions of higher education (see, for example, Bowen, Kurzweil, and
Tobin 2005). This is true among the most expensive private colleges and universities as ...
A Pallais - Journal of Human Resources, 2009 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract Most policies seeking to improve high school achievement historically either
provided incentives for educators or punished students. Since 1991, however, over a dozen
states, comprising approximately a quarter of the nation's high school seniors, have ...
A Pallais - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Hiring inexperienced workers generates information about their abilities. If this
information is public, workers obtain its benefi ts. If workers cannot compensate firms for
hiring them, fi rms will hire too few inexperienced workers. I hired 952 randomly-selected ...
A Pallais - unpublished manuscript. Accessed on February, 2009 - scholar.harvard.edu
Abstract: This paper estimates the sensitivity of students' college application decisions to a
small change in the cost of sending standardized test scores to colleges. In the fall of 1997,
the ACT increased the number of free score reports it allowed students to send from three ...
[CITATION] The effect of group size on ultimatum bargaining
A Pallais - Unpublished manuscript, 2005
A Pallais… - scholar.harvard.edu
Abstract: Discrimination research often attempts to distinguish between two sources of
discrimination: statistical discrimination and taste-based discrimination. This project uses a
field experiment in a large firm to test for a third source. It tests whether managers' beliefs ...
A Pallais, D Acemoglu… - scholar.harvard.edu
Abstract: We exploit a new dataset on Army veterans to analyze the changes in the returns to
education and (typically unobserved) ability over time. A large literature finds that the
measured return to education has risen over the past few decades. However, data ...
A Pallais - 2008 - aeaweb.org
Abstract: This paper estimates the sensitivity of students' college application decisions to a
small change in the cost of sending standardized test scores to colleges. In the fall of 1997,
the ACT increased the number of free score reports it allowed students to send from three ...
D Autor, E Duflo, AD Pallais - 2011 - dspace.mit.edu
Page 1. Essays in Labor Economics by Amanda Dawn Pallais BA Economics and Mathematics,
University of Virginia (2006) Submitted to the Department of Economics in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the ...
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