Different theories of expectation formation and learning usually yield different outcomes for realized market prices in … dynamic models. The purpose of this paper is to investigate expectation formation and learning in a controlled experimental …

randomized experiment. Half of the students who responded to an Internet questionnaire were given factual information on loan … conditions, whereas the other half did not receive such information. Six months later, students who received information have …

students' forecasts of their exam grades. Part of a student's grade expectation is based on the student's previous academic … five hundred second-year undergraduate students enrolled in a statistics course in Moscow. The course contains three exams … and each student produces a forecast for each of the three exams. Students' expectations are not rational and most of …

a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received …

conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers are …

majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the …Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …