field experiment in which we sent 1,248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants …

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 …

the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …

teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using … document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of … two otherwise identical electives can differ only because of heterogeneity in the reporting style of students attending …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An …This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …

foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …