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Ritzen, Jo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

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Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests

Attali, Yigal; Neeman, Zvika; Schlosser, Analia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE that...

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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …

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The Impact of Interest in School on Educational Success in Portugal

Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …

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In search of excellence - Innovation contests to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Portugal

Carvalho, Adão - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2009

businesses; an increasing trend in the number of innovation contests launched annually in Portugal; high rates of rotation of the …Numerous initiatives of different nature have taken place in Portugal over the recent years aiming at raising … consciousness of the importance and advantages of innovation and entrepreneurship, persuading businesspeople to place innovation as …

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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...

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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...

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Competition and the Ratchet Effect

Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding multi-period contracts are not enforceable. In a simple, context-rich environment, we experimentally...

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Life Expectancy and Schooling: New Insights from Cross-Country Data

Hazan, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and...

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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

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