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Grades and Rank : Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance
Jalava, Nina - 2014
How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic non-financial incentives play an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047861
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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
Battistin, Erich - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in … inflation resulting from discretion in the grading of randomly assigned external markers. We find large housing price gains from … the school quality improvements artificially signaled by inflation as well as lower deprivation and more businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942088
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Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve : A Reassessment of the US Experience
Karanassou, Marika - 2009
the PC and explain the evolution of inflation and unemployment in the US from 1970 to 2006. Since our empirical … and inflation, while the monetary expansion was quite ineffective and led mainly to higher inflation. Finally, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158034
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061931
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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
Bagues, Manuel - 2017
. Second, we show that authors who publish in these journals are more likely to receive a positive evaluation when (randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946585
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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
Askitas, Nikos - 2012
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117001
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Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling within Twin Pairs?
Lundborg, Petter - 2011
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This exogeneity assumption has been commonly questioned, however, but there is to date little evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122977
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Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest Upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction
Odermatt, Reto - 2020
prediction errors, we compare people's forecasts of their life satisfaction in five years' time with their current realizations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827351
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321249
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty : Assessing Collective Model Predictions Against Direct Evidence on Sharing
Bargain, Olivier; Lacroix, Guy; Tiberti, Luca - 2023
-capita expenditures and ignore the extent of within-household inequality. Recent advances in the estimation of collective models suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254963