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Autor:
Timothy Perri, Michael Gibbs
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Gary Becker wrote what may be the first economic analysis of conscription. Less than a decade later, economists played a key role in an important public policy debate during the Vietnam War, which eventually led to abolishment of the military draft.
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economics. 126:135-151
I consider educational signaling of inherent ability that facilitates sorting of individuals between sectors. More able individuals are more productive in the primary sector, and less able individuals are more productive in the secondary sector. I fi
Autor:
Timothy Perri, Frederick H. Wallace
Publikováno v:
Scientometrics. 115:749-766
The extent of publishing in predatory journals in economics is examined. A simple model of researcher behavior is presented to explore those factors motivating an academic to publish in predatory journals as defined by Beall (Criteria for determining
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
Economics of Governance. 19:1-19
Previous research suggests that universities that fear tenuring bad candidates more than they fear rejecting good candidates would optimally have both department and outside evaluating committees. I find that a higher relative cost of accepting bad c
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
Information Economics and Policy. 36:69-74
Online higher education may lower educational time cost for less able individuals more than for others. If education merely signals ability, decreasing education cost for the less able may decrease welfare by increasing over-investment in education b
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
Review of Behavioral Economics. 3:173-188
Akerlof (2012, 2013) has argued individuals often do not behave according to rational expectations. He shows how buyers in a complete lemon’s market are worse off if they behave irrationally---like loons. We examine several different lemon’s mark
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics Letters. 23:227-229
Maybe. Lemons and signalling models generally deal with different welfare problems, the former with withdrawal of high quality sellers, and the latter with socially wasteful signals. Absent signalling, with asymmetric information, high productivity w
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics Letters. 19:1899-1902
Oyer (2007, 2008) considered the turnover of economics professors early in their careers. He found professors are more likely to move down from higher ranked schools than up from lower ranked schools. An asymmetric information model suggests this phe
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 125:240-242
The existing superstar model (Rosen 1981) does not require imperfect substitutes and explains the convexity of total earnings with respect to talent due to higher output for those with the most talent. We develop a model that explains why per unit ea
Autor:
Timothy Perri
Publikováno v:
American Law and Economics Review. 10:424-453
US conscription in the Civil War is analyzed. Conscription was designed to gain federal control of enlistments, leaving state and local governments much of the fiscal and administrative responsibility for raising troops. Due to the hiring of substitu