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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

active and tend to be more performance oriented. Students, although showing a better performance, are less motivated in …

increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …

comparative advantage. We test students who have been exposed to the typical textbook and classroom presentation of specialization … and trade with real but paradoxical situations where the same goods are both imported and exported by a country. Students …

school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in non-urban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories …

This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented … trends in international migration of students, we develop a small theoretical model allowing to identify the various factors … associated to the attraction of migrants as well as the costs of moving abroad. Using new data capturing the number of students …