2013. Costly mistakes have externalities: they transfer tuition waivers from high- to low-socioeconomic status students …, and increase the number of students attending college. To shed light on the mechanisms underlying mistakes, we exploit a …

-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 …

confirm the paramount influence of the student’s track record and talent. The results, however, also show that geographical …

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 …

-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication … competition, although some of them become weaker. Our main findings are the following: (i) The ability of sellers to make non … bargaining and in competition; (ii) Competition reduces the informativeness of the price requests and weakens the anchoring …

a laboratory experiment to test whether public or private messages are more persuasive and how this depends on the … audience's strategic environment. In the experiment, public signals are most persuasive. The results match the theoretical …