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The Heterogeneous Effects of Early Track Assignment on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019
Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission thresholds, we estimate the cognitive and non-cognitive...
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A Bit of Salt a Trace of Life - Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020
preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within the province, village-level variation in gender attitudes confirm … the importance of parental gender preferences. Consequently, large scale programs can have positive (and possibly …
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What can the Big Five Personality Factors contribute to explain Small-Scale Economic Behavior?
Muller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - 2012
Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …
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Be patient when measuring Hyperbolic Discounting: Stationarity, Time Consistency and Time Invariance in a Field Experiment
Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; Swart, Lisette - 2015
Most evidence of hyperbolic discounting is based on violations of either stationarity or time consistency as observed in choice experiments. These choice reversals may however also result from time-varying discount rates. Hyperbolic discounting is a plausible explanation for choice reversals...
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Stress Reactions cannot explain the Gender Gap in Willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
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Stress Reactions Cannot Explain the Gender Gap in Willingness to Compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135604
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of...
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325787
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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures
Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
attitudes, confidence and the Big Five personality traits. For most outcomes, the predictive power of competitiveness exceeds …
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