This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for … students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer tutorial sessions. For the full sample, we find little support for this … hypothesis, but we find a significant effect of sunk costs on attendance for the 45% of students in our sample who are …

simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students … studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD students are an asset in terms of publications. Those studying for a …

deviation in exam grade. Effort in our study increases most for students at and below median ability, resulting in a reduction …

This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

discontinuous function of parental income, the effect of BAfoeG on students’ enrollment decisions can be identified separately from …