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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

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One-to-One Technology and Student Outcomes

Hull, Marie - 2017

New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Falk, Armin - 2011

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 …

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Disclosure, Trust and Persuasion in Insurance Markets

de Meza, David - 2010

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy's value for money (the claims ratio) and the seller's commission. These information disclosures have virtually no effect despite most buyers claiming to value such information....

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Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members

Carrera, Mariana - 2017

We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change a health behavior. Our experiment randomized 836 new members of a private gym into a control...

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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment

Beck, Adrian - 2010

We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert's provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert's...

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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played asignificant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human...

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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill BiasedTechnological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

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Technological and Organizational Changes, andLabor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments

Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno Galbis, Eva - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on jobstability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis inwhich we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of Frenchestablishments...

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