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Estimating an Equilibrium Model of Horizontal Competition in Education.
J Polit Econ
July 2022
University of California, Los Angeles, National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Center for Effective Global Action.
The quality of the match between students and schools affects learning, but little is known about the magnitude of these effects or how they respond to changes in market structure. I develop a quantitative equilibrium model of school competition with horizontal competition in match quality. I estimate the model using data from Pakistan, a country with high private enrollment, and (1) quantify the importance of good matches, (2) show that profit-maximizing private schools' choices of quality advantage wealthier students, increasing inequality and reducing welfare and learning, and (3) provide intuition for when interventions in the market are valuable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Syrian regime's apparatus for systemic torture: A qualitative narrative study of testimonies from survivors.
BMC Psychiatry
December 2022
Professor of the Graduate Division and Chair Emeritus of the Mack Center on Mental Health & Social Conflict, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Background: Despite broad interest of the Syrian refugee plight in the academic and media circles, there are still limited studies analyzing the lived experiences of torture survivors under the Syrian regime. This qualitative study interviewed torture survivors to examine the form and function of the Syrian regime's security apparatus, and the personal aftermath of survivors.
Methods: Thirteen in-depth interviews were conducted in Arabic with Syrian refugees who endured torture.