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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
-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … of their motivation, do not increase their scores under relative grading. Since women slightly outperform men under …
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256140
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'Let me dream on!' Anticipatory Emotions and Preference for Timing in Lotteries
Kocher, Martin; Krawczyk, Michal; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
prefer a delayed resolution of risk due to positive anticipatory emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257350
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Grow rich while you sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation
Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
perform a large ‘lab-in-the-field’ experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255528
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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
that both forces are at play. We conduct a natural field experiment where, in a randomly assigned part of a residential …
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Do Experts' SKU Forecasts improve after Feedback?
Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
See also the article with the same title in the 'Journal of Forecasting' (2013), 33, 69-79.<P> We analyze the behavior of experts who quote forecasts for monthly SKU-level sales data where we compare data before and after the moment that experts received different kinds of feedback on their...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255606
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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
-85.<P> In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving … laboratory, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255768
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Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255946