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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2021

I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test...

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Academics’ Attitudes toward Engaging in Public Discussions – Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Engagement Conditions

Püttmann, Vitus; Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

academics’ engagement attitudes via a survey experiment among 4,091 tenured professors in Germany. Consistent with the crowding …

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Competition and the Role of Group Identity

Cornaglia, Francesca - 2019

. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze … more actively in the team-building task …

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The Team Allocator Game : Allocation Power in Public Goods Games

Karakostas, Alexandros; Matzat, Dominik; Riewe, Gerhard; … - 2021

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …

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Social Distancing and Risk Taking : Evidence from a Team Game Show

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Sousa, José de; Noir-Luhalwe, Alexis - 2022

team projects …

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Measuring "Group Cohesion" to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production

Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022

We introduce “group cohesion” to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …

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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 …

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Heat and Learning

Goodman, Joshua S. - 2019

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning mitigates this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million PSAT-retakers show hotter school days in years before the test reduce scores, with extreme heat being particularly damaging. Weekend and summer heat...

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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022

We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....

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Effort and Selection Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation

Ytsma, Erina - 2022

exploiting the introduction of performance pay in German academia as a natural experiment. Using data encompassing the universe …

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