Miguel S. Urquiola
Columbia University · American Language Program
Active 1997–2024
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Econometrics
- Demographic economics
- Geography
- Labour economics
- Statistics
- Economics
- Mathematics
Selected publications
Why Do Households Leave School Value Added on the Table? The Roles of Information and Preferences
American Economic Review · 2023 · 31 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Economics
- Demographic economics
Romanian households could choose schools with one standard deviation worth of additional value added. Why do households leave value added “on the table”? We study two possibilities: (i) information and (ii) preferences for other school traits. In an experiment, we inform randomly selected households about schools' value added. These households choose schools with up to 0.2 standard deviations of additional value added. We then estimate a discrete choice model and show that households have preferences for a variety of school traits. As a result, fully correcting households' beliefs would eliminate at most a quarter of the value added that households leave unexploited. (JEL D12, D83, I21, I28)
Frequent coauthors
- 48 shared
Rajeev Dehejia
- 48 shared
Cristian Pop-Eleches
- 39 shared
Robert Ainsworth
- 30 shared
W. Bentley MacLeod
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 25 shared
Juan Saavedra
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 24 shared
Evan Riehl
- 9 shared
Dennis Epple
- 9 shared
Chang‐Tai Hsieh
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