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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …

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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2012

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

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Persistent effects of temporary incentives : evidence from a nationwide health insurance experiment

Baillon, Aurélien; Capuno, Joseph J.; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2019

Temporary incentives are offered in anticipation of persistent effects, but these are seldom estimated. We use a … nationwide randomized experiment in the Philippines to estimate effects three years after the withdrawal of two incentives for …

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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran

Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender,...

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Are there gender differences in the job mobility patterns of academic economists?

Hilmer, Christiana; Hilmer, Michael J. - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 353-357

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Gender differences in academic career paths of economists

Kahn, Shulamit Beth - In: The American economic review 83 (1993) 2, pp. 52-56

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Cracks in the glass ceiling : gender and promotion in the economics profession

McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D.; Ziliak, James P. - In: The American economic review 89 (1999) 2, pp. 392-396

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Evaluation of development policy : treatment versus program effects

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009

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Evaluation of development policy : treatment versus program effects

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009 - Revised August 2009

There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....

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Employee health and employer incentives

Hullegie, Patrick; Koning, Pierre - 2015

problems or disability. An important component of the Dutch reforms was to enhance employer incentives, which was done by … employer incentives may stimulate preventive and reintegration activities by firms, thereby improving the employment …

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