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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges

Buser, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

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