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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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reasons to provide benefits. Furthermore, analyzing the impact of tangible and monetary incentives on satisfaction and …
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This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex … players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. …
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We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
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a substantial increase in the number of students aged 21 or above. This is likely to have been driven by post …
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The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...
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In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the education of policymakers through the media. It is the silver bullet of policy advice in comparison to...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intended effects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …
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statistically insignificant. Moreover, once school-specific differences are also accounted for, Vietnamese students do just as well …
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We examine how selected high school characteristics - including type of diploma - contribute to students' academic …
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