the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …

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 …

grades of local students enrolled at Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that … the academic performance of students who are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis substantially increases. Grade … improvements are driven by younger students and the effects are stronger for women and low performers. In line with how cannabis …

performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion … 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 …

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 …