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The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices
Lührmann, Melanie - 2018
We study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence. The educational program was randomly … assigned among high-school students and choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who participated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937819
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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2021
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316350
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Hidden Benefits of Reward : A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives
Kvaloy, Ola - 2013
We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075962
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Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre - 2016
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985409
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs. A key feature of the program was its ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961949
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - CESifo - 2006
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196320
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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth
Felfe, Christina - 2018
citizenship on January 1, 2000—in terms of inter-group cooperation and social segregation between immigrant and native youth. We …-in-the-field experiment based on the investment game with the citizenship reform by exploiting the quasi-random assignment of citizenship … rights around its cut-off date. Immigrant youth born prior to the reform display high levels of cooperation toward other …
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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence
Balestra, Simone - 2018
Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926555
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From Dawn till Dusk : Implications of Full-Day Care for Children's Development
Felfe, Christina - 2017
A currently high-ranking question on the political agenda of many developed countries relates to the intensive margin of child care and thus to the effects of prolonging the opening hours of child care institutions. This study adds to the scarce literature on this question and investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953947
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Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes
de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin - 2021
In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of Head Start are threefold: (1) we are the first to examine distributional effects of Head Start...
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