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Goal Setting and Raising the Bar: A Field Experiment
van Lent, Max; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017
We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students … a course-specific grade goal during one of the mentor-student meetings (goal treatment). A random subset of those … find that students in the goal treatment perform significantly better as compared to students in the control group, and …
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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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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Are Entrepreneurs more Optimistic and Overconfident than Managers and Employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2015
entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … when bad events occur. For incentivized measures of overconfidence we find no difference between entrepreneurs and managers … than successful managers. We conclude that optimism and overconfidence are indeed characteristics of entrepreneurs, but …
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The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing...
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Female admission cap in higher education: The case of Iran
Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021
We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran's public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender, cohorts...
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Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors
Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023
We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
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Grow rich while you sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation
Gautier, Pieter; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
We use data from a promotion campaign of NH-Hoteles to study self-selection of participants in a gift-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in Belgium and the Netherlands. The data allow us to distinguish...
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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - 2011
In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In...
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