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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group …. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …

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

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

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Wage Dispersion in Russia

Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

,workers' remuneration depends on their individual productivity, which is itself a function ofexperience, education and skill levels, and …

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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings

Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

The authors adopt the Five-Factor Model of personality structure to explore how personalityaffected the earnings of a large group of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin highschools in 1957 and were re-interviewed in 1992. All five basic traits–extroversion,...

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Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment

Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of highschool on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locateeach student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant,a broker or a...

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Selective Secondary Education and School Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Hoop, Jacobus de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...

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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...

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

Buser, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect 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...

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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education …

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