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This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by … absence of treatment, students' underestimate their position in the grade distribution. The treatment significantly improves … the students' self-assessment. We find that treated students experience a significant decrease in their educational …
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Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...
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The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...
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This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...
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Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … new survey of graduating international students, we find that EU graduating students are significantly more likely than … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement …
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application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …
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We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …
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Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK, since the landmark Robbins Report in 1963, and its consequences for levels of and inequalities in household income, physical and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models...
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This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …
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