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altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
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We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different …
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altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
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Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …
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We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a comprehensive data base from administrative register. We use a...
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This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …
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economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision …
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increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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a penalty that the family has not (yet) received. We thus find evidence of spillover effects and learning about …
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documents that placing students into study groups with their friends may improve learning, especially for low-ability females. …
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