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economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the … any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in …
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are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of … nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study … the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …
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We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the "beauty premium" when deciding on which candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use...
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We examine how the net worth of billionaires relates to their looks, as rated by 16 people of different gender and ethnicity. Surprisingly, their financial assets are unrelated to their beauty; nor are they related to their educational attainment. As a group, however, billionaires are both more...
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Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national economies. Extreme Event Attribution (EEA), a methodology that examines the degree to which anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme...
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two-year program in which three fourth and fifth grade teachers observed each other. We find that two cohorts of students …
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,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors …. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that … women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students …
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