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education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … is instrumented by the number of universities with special status and find positive external returns to education of … rural, men, and low-educated workers. This finding provides the motivation for increasing education investment in rural …
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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational … attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours … is the first paper that investigates the causal effect of education on volunteering. We find that the education reform …
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment …
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Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...
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ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of …
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This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence...
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outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
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, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …
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