Browsing by Author "Avery, Christopher"

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    • The CAPS Prediction System and Stock Market Returns 

      Avery, Christopher N.; Zeckhauser, Richard Jay (2009)
      We analyze the informational content of more than 1.2 million stock picks provided by more than 60,000 individuals from November 1, 2006 to October 31, 2007 on the CAPS open access website created by the Motley Fool company ...

    • The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns 

      Avery, Christopher N.; Chevalier, Judith; Zeckhauser, Richard Jay (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      We study the predictive power of approximately 2.5 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the Motley Fool company (www.caps.fool.com). These picks prove to be surprisingly informative ...

    • The Effects of College Counseling on High-Achieving, Low-Income Students 

      Avery, Christopher N. (2009)
      This paper reports the results of a pilot study, using a randomized controlled trial to provide college counseling to high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the ...

    • Essays at the Intersection of Development and Education Economics 

      Bau, Natalie (2015-04-21)
      This dissertation uses tools from economics to study three different aspects of educational markets in the developing world. In chapter 1, I analyze how competition among private schools in Pakistan affects student outcomes ...

    • Essays on the Economics of Education 

      Cohodes, Sarah Rose (2015-05-12)
      This dissertation includes three essays in the field of economics of education. The first essay provides estimates of the long-run impacts of tracking high-achieving students using data from a Boston Public Schools (BPS) ...

    • A Simple Model of Social Distancing and Vaccination 

      Avery, Christopher (Harvard Kennedy School, 2021-11)
      This paper analyzes a simple model of infectious disease where the incentives for individuals to reduce risks through endogenous social distancing take straightforward cost-benefit form. Since disease is transmitted through ...