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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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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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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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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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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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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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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers’ motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in outside options arising from age and experience cutoffs in the Austrian unemployment insurance (UI) system, and use absenteeism as a proxy for worker effort. Results indicate that...

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Efficiency Wages with Motivated Agents

Armouti-Hansen, Jesper - 2020

Many organizations nowadays combine profits with a social mission. This paper reveals a new hidden benefit of the mission: its role in facilitating the emergence of efficiency wages. We show that in a standard gift-exchange principals highly underestimate agents' reciprocity and, thereby, offer...

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