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curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …
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We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
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existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower … likely to be indirect than direct.This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economics of Education Review' (30 …
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We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...
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We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...
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We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042887
model using a unique data set of individuals who completed undergraduate education in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2001 …
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …
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