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The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievements: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper reports a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing all first year requirements before the start of their second academic year. Participants were assigned to a high reward...

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Favouritism and Financial Incentives: A Natural Experiment

Rickman, Neil; Witt, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Principals who exercise favouritism towards certain agents may harm those who are not so favoured. Other papers have produced evidence consistent with the presence of such favouritism but have been unable to consider methods for controlling it. We address this issue in the context of a natural...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...

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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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Modelling Financial Incentives To Get Unemployed Back To Work

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro-effects concerning the behaviour of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...

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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...

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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance

Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

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Why Europe has become environmentally cleaner: Decomposing the roles of fiscal, trade and environmental policies

López, Ramón; Palacios, Amparo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper systematically examines the role of fiscal policy, trade and energy taxes on environmental quality in Europe … policies and energy taxes are effective in reducing the concentration of certain pollutants through different mechanisms. We … of ozone, perhaps the most difficult to control pollutant. Finally, energy taxes appear to have an important effect in …

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Tax Policy, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Soren Bo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

an entrepreneurial sector, the Paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and … managerial advice. It considers differential wage and capital income taxes, a comprehensive income tax, incomplete loss offset …

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