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This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...
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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary …
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-year field experiment with a top-10 undergraduate accounting program that randomized the gender composition of semester … decisions less often than men's. Our findings have implications for team assignments in male-dominated settings and cast …
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choose as a team mate. The novel feature of your study is that the choice of a team mate is either benevolence or relevant to … (path of study) of the pool of possible team mates and received a signal giving weak information about their ability … chosen team mate. However, we found the opposite. The subjects exerted more favouritism in the revenue sharing scenario …
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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous … variation in – otherwise random – team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured …
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can deliberate secretly. To test the model's key predictions, we run an experiment. The results from the laboratory …
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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …
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There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
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