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The e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004
This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076716
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The Credibility Problem in Unemployment Insurance Policy
Dur, Robert A.J. - EconWPA - 1999
If distortions in the labour market lead to inefficiently high unemployment, and policy makers cannot enter into a binding policy commitment before nominal wages are set, excessive inflation may result due to a credibility problem. This is the famous Kydland&Prescott- Barro&Gordon inflationary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412499
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2005
This paper investigates the effects of cooperation (corporatism) on macroeconomic performance by considering a rather standard policy game between the government and a monopoly union. We stress the shortcomings of the traditional way used to model cooperation in policy games (the maximization of...
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Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
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The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data
Rockoff, Jonah - EconWPA - 2003
Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little evidence that teachers' credentials … matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers' characteristics … large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher quality raises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125945
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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003
Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076552
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125917
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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance
Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001
This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR). Differences across universities are analysed by specifying and estimating a subject- specific educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413017
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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004
This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...
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