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Why Join a Team?
Cooper, David J.; Saral, Krista; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019
teaching future teammates. Participants perform a real-effort task and decide whether to work independently or join a two … of teaching. High ability workers are more willing to join teams in the absence of revenue sharing and less willing to … is driven by expected future financial gains from teaching rather than some variety of pro-social preferences. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141223
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Immigrant assimilation, trust and social capital
Cox, James C.; Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2010
Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272683
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005
As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262631
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Is there a causal effect of high school math on labor market outcomes?
Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2006
Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268010
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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course: Evidence from a UK university
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012
Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282615
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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2003
This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261593
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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
Angrist, Joshua; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2017
modern empirical agenda. This essay traces the divergent development of econometric teaching and empirical practice, arguing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653263
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Do Grow-Your-Own Programs Work? Evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland
Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, Ramon - 2024
/18% for Black girls), countering a prevailing narrative that teaching leaves one worse off financially relative to other …
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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