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Information and Credible Sanctions in Curbing Online Cheating Among Undergraduates : a Field Experiment
Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test … whether informing students they have been caught cheating reduces subsequent cheating. We find informing students about our … capability to detect plagiarism has little effect on cheating. Notifying students that they have been caught cheating and are on …
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Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap
Exley, Christine L.; Fisman, Raymond; Kessler, Judd B.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We analyze data from two universities that allowed students to conceal grades from their transcripts during the Covid … with real employers and a survey of impacted students. Our findings highlight how information-optional policies can create …
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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2006
18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466196
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Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke
Burke, Marshall; Heft-Neal, Sam; Li, Jessica; Driscoll, Anne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The impacts of environmental change on human outcomes often depend on local exposures and behavioral responses that are challenging to observe with traditional administrative or sensor data. We show how data from private pollution sensors, cell phones, social media posts, and internet search...
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong...
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Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2020
Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481573
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Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?
Cutler, David M. - 2007
In the past few decades, some measures of population risk have improved, while others have deteriorated. Understanding the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the population in the early 1970s with that of the population in...
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Behavior and the Dynamics of Epidemics
Atkeson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I use a model of private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID pandemic over the past year in the United States to address two questions: What dynamics of infections and deaths should we expect to see from a pandemic? What are our options for mitigating the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533309
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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature
Corman, Hope - 2018
Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996978
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No Strings Attached : The Behavioral Effects of U.S. Unconditional Cash Transfer Programs
Marinescu, Ioana - 2018
The universal basic income has become a widely discussed measure in policy circles around the world. In this review, we cover the evidence relevant to its potential impact in the US, and in developed countries more generally. Many studies find no statistically significant effect of an...
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