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? Suppose a manager’s evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal’s scope … for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that the manager justifies her evaluation if and only if the … employee’s performance was poor. The justification assures the employee that the manager has not distorted the evaluation …
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shows that students may not be informative of the role of social preferences in the broader population. We find that the … representative participants differ fundamentally from students both in their level of selfishness and in the relative importance … differences among the students, males and females in the representative group differ fundamentally in their moral motivation …
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first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …
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behavior of students and the general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two …-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … different than non-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory …
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We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments with student participants....
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Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …
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In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the gathering and the spread of both existing and new economic research. Furthermore, it is currently the largest bibliometric database in economic sciences containing 33 different...
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In this paper we argue that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that …
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Lionel Robbins contributions are often discussed in terms of two main aspects. First, the delineation of the scope of economics in terms of decision making conditional on scarcity. Second, a more methodological concern with respect to scientific neutrality and the possibility of meaningful...
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