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Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist … any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in … economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the …
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We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four … years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …
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where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …
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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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experiment across seven colleges to evaluate the algorithm's effects on students. Placement rates into college-level courses … track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown …
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Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers …
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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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