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The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

Levitt, Steven; list, john; Neckermann, Susanne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Research on behavioral economics has established the importance of factors such as reference dependent preferences, hyperbolic discounting, and the value placed on non-financial rewards. To date, these insights have had little impact on the way the educational system operates. Through a series...

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Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

Levitt, Steven; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The "Hawthorne effect," a concept familiar to all students of social science, has had a profound influence both on the direction and design of research over the past 75 years. The Hawthorne effect is named after a landmark set of studies conducted at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s. The first...

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Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

Levitt, Steven; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study presents an overview of modern field experiments and their usage in economics. Our discussion focuses on three distinct periods of field experimentation that have influenced the economics literature. The first might well be thought of as the dawn of "field" experimentation: the work...

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What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

Levitt, Steven; list, john; Reiley, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The minimax argument represents game theory in its most elegant form: simple but with stark predictions. Although some of these predictions have been met with reasonable success in the field, experimental data have generally not provided results close to the theoretical predictions. In a...

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Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

Levitt, Steven; list, john; Sadoff, Sally E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Although backward induction is a cornerstone of game theory, most laboratory experiments have found that agents are not able to successfully backward induct. Much of this evidence, however, is generated using the Centipede game, which is ill-suited for testing the theory. In this study, we...

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The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

Cullen, Julie Berry; Levitt, Steven; Jacob, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Current education reform proposals involve improving educational outcomes through forms of market-based competition and …

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Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between White and Black students persists, even after controlling for a wide range of observable characteristics. Using a newly available data set (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), we demonstrate that in stark contrast to earlier...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … score gap that appears over these same ages. We document the presence of this gender math gap across every strata of society …, we find that earlier results linking the gender gap in math to measures of gender equality are sensitive to the inclusion …

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Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that includes a test of mental function for...

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Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

Levitt, Steven; Jacob, Brian A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper reports on the results of a prospective implementation of methods for detecting teacher cheating. In Spring 2002, over 100 Chicago Public Schools elementary classrooms were selected for retesting based on the cheating detection algorithm. Classrooms prospectively identified as likely...

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