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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes … exists at the time of the experiment. The information intervention informed a random sample of eligible employees by …

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Money matters : evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2 … aware at any time that they were part of an experiment. The experiment shows that the voucher had a significant causal … of fifty percent. -- Field experiment ; voucher ; adult education ; training ; Switzerland …

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Information and preferences for public spending : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Schwerdt, Guido; Werner, Katharina; … - 2016

The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide treatment groups with information on current spending...

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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: evidence from representative experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the...

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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Do differences in citizens' policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques...

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Ability peer effects in university : evidence from a randomized experiment

Booij, Adam S.; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2015

This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students - conditional on their ability - randomly. The data support a...

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Instruction time, information, and student achievement : evidence from a field experiment

Andersen, Simon Calmar; Guul, Thorbjørn Sejr; Humlum, … - 2019

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and high socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the effect of combining increased instruction time with information to teachers about their students' reading achievements by using a...

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Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: a field experiment in India

Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2020

COVID-19 from a reliable source can reduce stigmatization. We carry out a randomized field experiment in the state of Uttar …

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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

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Nudging study habits : a field experiment on peer tutoring in higher education

Wilson, Nicholas; Pugatch, Todd - 2017

offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment …

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