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The “Zhang Xuefeng Effect”: Information Intervention and the College Admission Problem in China

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Information regarding the quality of colleges and labor‐market prospects of majors plays an important role in parents' and students' school‐choice decisions, particularly when these decisions are crucially relevant to the students' long‐run career choices and life earnings.
Yutong Huo, Yun Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Conclusions: overview of presented arguments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Erdkamp, Paul   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

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