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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 … ability students and students from higher social backgrounds have higher passing rates and collect more credit points when … assigned to (higher) reward groups. Students in the reward groups, however, do not report to have studied more hours. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413020
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Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid – Microeconometric Evidence for Germany.
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - EconWPA - 2004
We evaluate the effect of the federal students’ financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher … students had to repay the full loan until 1990. Thereafter, 50 percent of the student aid has been offered as a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134616
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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004
In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We offer evidence that children's participation in child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556051
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Stages of Growth in Economic Development
Kejak, Michal - EconWPA - 2001
The paper analyses a two-sector model of endogenous growth with two common features of economic development: stages of sustained growth and underdevelopment traps. The model also demonstrates the transitional issues of a temporary underdevelopment trap, seemingly sustainable growth, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407679
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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach
Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005
Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407739
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The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Religious Markets
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004
Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407818
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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. This tells us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia differ from the industrial countries usually studied with matched data. We...
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004
I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a principal-agent set-up with a risk neutral insurer and infinitely lived risk averse agents. Agents, who are characterised by different productivities or skills, are employed by firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408328
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Decomposing productivity and wage effects of intraestablishment labor restructuring
Maliranta, Mika; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005
Aggregate productivity growth can be decomposed into growth within establishments, between establishments, and the impact of entering and exiting establishments. We demonstrate that such a productivity decomposition formula can also be used for studying intraestablishment restructuring through...
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