abstract the aim of this study is of the effect of structural changes in higher education on changes of output in sistan and baluchestan province using structural decomposition analysis (sda). the input-output tables of this region for the period 2006-2011 have been employed as the database of the model. the structural changes were decomposed into two factors: changes in share of specific secto...

The paper examines whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students’ subsequent achievement in education and the take-up by schools of financial support from the government for students. We build a theoretical model to describe the channels through which students’ belief of their ability, as proxied by previous performance in tests, affect their current effort in...

In Dekel and Feinberg (2004) we suggested a test for discovering whether a potential expert is informed of the distribution of a stochastic process. This category test requires predicting a “small”– category I – set of outcomes. In this paper we show that there is a randomized category test that cannot be manipulated, i.e. such that no matter how the potential expert randomizes his prediction, ...

Article history: Received 29 March 2013 Available online 10 February 2014 JEL classification: C72 D83 D85

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