US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms … suggested, while at the same time the majority of the world's poor had benefited insufficiently from stronger economic growth …, global imbalances, misperception of risk and lax financial regulation. Thirdly, beyond the aggregate picture of economic …

This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students' effort. We … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students …, a cooperative scheme that promotes information sharing and collaboration between students and a control treatment in …

The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point … exam score (PES). The experiment involved two classes of third-year economics students incentivized by a competitive reward …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …