setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students. …

on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning … efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance and of continuous preparation of the material. …

experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …

of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training …A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics … students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of …

-term goals) - can be cultivated through a large-scale program, and how this affects student learning. Using a randomized control …-regulation among sixth and seventh-grade students in primary schools in North Macedonia (about 33,000 students across 350 schools). The … results of this interventions are mixed. Exposed students report improvements in self-regulation, in particular the …