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Rank Incentives and Social Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Dobrescu, Loretti - 2019
all quantiles and extend beyond the time of the intervention. The mechanism behind these findings involves social learning …
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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo - 2016
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978953
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Learning Through Coworker Referrals
Glitz, Albrecht - 2019
initial uncertainty in the external market but the possibility of subsequent learning about match-specific productivity, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870212
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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Marconi, Gabriele - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021942
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Grades and Employer Learning
Toft Hansen, Anne; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021
This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238643
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Approaches to Learn About Employer Learning
Ablay, Mahmut; Lange, Fabian - 2022
The empirical literature on employer learning assumes that employers learn about unobserved ability differences across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237689
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A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders
Gill, David - 2011
In this note, we present a novel computerized real effort task based on moving sliders across a screen which overcomes many of the drawbacks of existing real effort tasks. The task was first developed and used by us in Gill and Prowse (American Economic Review, forthcoming). We outline the...
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Information and Learning in Oligopoly : An Experiment
Bigoni, Maria - 2013
This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual … a priori information. The econometrics hinges on a model built upon Experience Weighted Attraction learning, and the … simultaneous analysis of data on the information gathered and on actions taken by the subjects. Results suggest that learning is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088340
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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation
Fischer, Mira - 2018
Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926724
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Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2022
beliefs with experience are central to understanding behavior and learning in the IRPD. Beliefs strongly predict cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078209