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from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …
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stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … pay gaps and potential explanations. We find that female students earn about 6% less on average than male students, which … male and female students pursue. …
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To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and … follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program … treatment only reminding students to follow the program structure has limited effects. …
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First-generation university graduates have been found to face a series of disadvantages on their pathway to higher education and the labor market. We use unique, national level data on high achieving university graduates to attempt to disentangle the importance of lower prior attainment from...
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economic preferences. In our study, the latter are also related in a meaningful way to students' field behavior. …
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economic preferences. In our study, the latter are also related in a meaningful way to students’ field behavior. …
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-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that …
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-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261310