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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students with municipality-level information on all-day school...
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Effects of Scaling Up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students
Figlio, David; Hart, Cassandra; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2021
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students’ outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited...
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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms
Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states...
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Citations and Incentives in Academic Contests
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2019
There are several empirical studies of ex post analysis of citations in academia. There is no ex ante analysis of citations. I consider a game-theoretic model of a contest between scholars on the basis of two widely-used measures of citations (i.e., the h-index and total citation count) and the...
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When a Nudge Backfires : Combining (Im)Plausible Deniability with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Behavioral Change
Bolton, Gary - 2020
Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences, and social norms) to investigate the universality...
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Belief Elicitation : Limiting Truth Telling with Information or Incentives
Danz, David - 2020
examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …
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The Perks of Being in the Smaller Team : Incentives in Overlapping Contests
March, Christoph - 2020
consequences for the provision of incentives in organizations and the design of sports competitions …
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Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation
Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019
We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice …
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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs : Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019
A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...
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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market
Fest, Sebastian - 2019
In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...
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