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Same-sex role model effects in education
de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023
We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...
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Decomposing international gender test score differences
Munir, Farzana; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018
In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …)equality also contributes to girls' disadvantage. For reading, at the upper end of the talent distribution, girls' advantage can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916770
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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets
Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010
agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286501
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The intrinsic value of decision rights
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2014
Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal-at least partly-from an assumed positive intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282466
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Brain drain from Turkey: return intentions of skilled migrants
Güngör, Nil Demet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an internet survey of Turkish professionals residing abroad. In the migration literature, wage differentials are often cited as an important factor explaining skilled migration. The findings of our study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273650
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Urban poverty and support for Islamist terror: survey results of Muslims in fourteen countries
Mousseau, Michael - 2010
Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is … available for the urban poor, and to provide them the needed services, such as access to health care and education, that many …
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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Halla, Martin - 2010
the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal link between the intrinsic motivation to comply and actual …
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Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control
Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - 2004
's motivation to perform well. …
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Driving Forces of Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of informal sanctions by a large number of experiments.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005846433
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The intrinsic value of decision rights
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2013
Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal - at least partly - from an assumed positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316882