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-scale retailers in rural western Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with traditional "lecturing" within standardized … lesson-plans. After six months, active learning has a positive effect on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast to … for the active learning group, such as a 60 percent increase in investments. As an adverse outcome, reported late payment …
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Recent evidence highlights the importance of social norms in many economic relations. However, many of these relationships are long-term and provide repeated game incentives for performance. We experimentally investigate interaction effects of reciprocity and repeated game incentives in two...
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The experimental literature on repeated games has largely focused on settings where players discount the future identically. In applications, however, interactions often occur between players whose time preferences differ. We study experimentally the effects of discounting differentials in...
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This paper explores the reluctance of men (women) to acknowledge or recognise the work, comments, and claims of new ideas by other men (women) via widespread and intense demonstrations of indifference. Instances like desk rejections by journals by not allowing papers to reach a review stage,...
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We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning …
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for policy-makers seeking to use additional teaching resources to target a heterogeneous student population efficiently. …
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the nature of the task at the second date further shows that learning is unencumbered by a change in environment. Our …
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We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards and punishments. U.S. groups perform well because...
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To examine the effect of group size on the stability of prosocial behavior we used standard one-shot public good experiments with two and four subjects, which were conducted repeatedly three times at intervals of one week. Partner and stranger treatments were employed to control for group...
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We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding deterrent incentives. To implement such 'expressive law' we introduce different levels of very weakly incentivized, symmetric and asymmetric minimum contribution levels...
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