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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production : evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael - 2010
the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009013039
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Widening the high school curriculum to include soft skill training : impacts on health, behaviour, emotional wellbeing and occupational aspirations
Lordan, Grace; McGuire, Alistair - 2019
evidenced based health related quality of life (HRQoL) curriculum called Healthy Minds that ran in 34 high schools in England …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026200
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Spillovers in education choice
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2017
This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on critical course choices in high school and overcome the identification challenges of estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761898
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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories
Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign … administrative student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013347044
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Estimating the relationship between skill and overconfidence
Feld, Jan; Sauermann, Jan; Grip, Andries de - 2017
The Dunning-Kruger effect states that low performers vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more accurately assess their performance. Researchers usually interpret this empirical pattern as evidence that the low skilled are vastly overconfident while the high skilled are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625369
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Behavioral economics of education
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2014
During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408879
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Which factors determine the grades of undergraduate students in economics? : some evidence from Spain
Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Morales, Eduardo (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyses the determinants of grades achieved in three core subjects by first-year Economics undergraduate students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization track at high school and the grades at the university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504800
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Can grit be taught? : lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students
Santos, Indhira; Petroska-Beska, Violeta; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2022
students and teachers are exposed to the curriculum than when only students are treated. For disadvantaged students, we also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013407551
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Jacks-of-All-Trades? : the effect of balanced skills on team performance
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced skills is also positive in a team of … specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program … results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364491
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Teamwork and intra-firm wage dispersion among blue-collar workers
Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008
Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is associated with increased intra-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers. We also show that moderating factors play an important role. While teamwork...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652704