Argentine Public Universities: Inefficient and Ineffective?

Optimal Public Expenditure with Inefficient Unemployment

This paper proposes a theory of optimal public expenditure when unemployment is inefficient. The theory is based on a matching model. Optimal public expenditure deviates from the Samuelson rule to reduce the unemployment gap (the gap between the current and efficient rates of unemployment). Such optimal “stimulus spending” is described by a formula expressed with estimable sufficient statistics...

Political Screening: Theory and Evidence from the Argentine Public Sector

Politicians can bene…t by ensuring that public sector positions requiring political services are occupied by partisans. We study a model in which this political screening is achieved by varying the amount of required political services and associated compensation in otherwise similar positions. Past vote shares provide information on the population share of partisans, and we predict a U-shaped ...

Illusive, Ineffective, Inefficient, Ideal: Standardized Coordination Task Assessments of Awareness Support

Awareness support in cooperative systems provides users with mutual information on each others’ presence and activities. Measuring its effectiveness is a complex task since people tend to forget quickly. Therefore, it becomes imperative to use a technique generating results while a user’s awareness is still present. The Standardized Coordination Task Assessment measures response times and error...

Merit - Aware Admissions in Public Universities

Public colleges and universities may soon lose the freedom to consider race in their admissions processes. In California and Washington, voters have required colleges to abandon affirmative action, and in Texas, a federal court decision has virtually eliminated the use of racial preferences in college admissions. At the University of Michigan, preferences—established on historical, moral, and e...

Part Ii: Due Process at Public Universities