COLLEGE CHOICE AS A COLLECTIVE DECISION.
Although the choice between colleges can be thought of as being made collectively by a family, models of educational choice almost universally portray the decision as made by the student alone. Using a novel experimental method for identifying collective decision functions, I find that students have...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 1202 - 1220 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2018
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