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Nudging Study Habits : A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education
Pugatch, Todd - 2017
offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment …
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Rising Tuition and Enrollment in Public Higher Education
Hemelt, Steven W.; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2021
In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324788
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter - 2014
-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046682
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Dual-Credit Courses and the Road to College : Experimental Evidence from Tennessee
Hemelt, Steven W. - 2019
Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee Department of Education, we conduct the first randomized controlled trial of the effects of dual-credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865848
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The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty
Jones, Todd; Sloan, Arielle - 2022
We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083949
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When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Buurman, Margaretha - 2020
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of … experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …
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Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks : A Field Experiment on #Econtwitter
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Ferman, Bruno; C. Sant'Anna, Pedro - 2023
This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262209
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Who Performs Better Under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment
De Paola, Maria - 2015
We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031188
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2012
randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106956
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Two Field Experiments on Self-Selection, Collaboration Intensity, and Team Performance
Fischer, Mira - 2020
We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the collaboration intensity of the task as the key...
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