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Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a standard scheme without time pressure and an alternative scheme consisting of two written intermediate...
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Sex, morals and exam cheating
Krawczyk, Michał - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2012
This paper reports a field experiment investigating effectiveness of moral appeal in discouraging exam cheating. Substantial level of cheating was identified using an index of test answers similarity, contrasted with low self-reports. The treatment manipulation made an impact on self-reported...
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Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-level Suggestions: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
When asking for donations, charitable organizations often suggest a potential amount to contribute. However, the evidence concerning the effects of such suggestions is scarce and inconsistent. Unlike the majority of earlier studies concerned with small-money solicitations, we examine the effect...
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Which measures of time preference best predict outcomes: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen; Carpenter, Jeffrey; Götte, Lorenz; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 308-320
Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which measures work best. With the help of a large sample of...
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Goals (th)at Work – Goals, Monetary Incentives, and Workers’ Performance
Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2012
, in some treatments workers are paid a bonus conditional on reaching a pre-specified goal. We observe that the use of … the goal plays a crucial role. Strikingly, the positive effect of self-chosen goals persists even if the goal is not … backed up by monetary incentives. We propose a novel incentive contract where – through the choice of a personal work goal …
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey; Götte, Lorenz; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project’s most distinctive...
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Risky Choices of Poor People: Comparing Risk Preference Elicitation Approaches in Field Experiments
Holden, Stein - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2014
This paper studies the risk preferences of poor rural households in Malawi and compares the Holt and Laury (2002) (HL) multiple price list approach with hypothetical real-world framing and monetary incentive-compatible framing with the Tanaka, Camerer and Nguyen (2010) (TCN) monetary framing...
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Competition as a savings incentive: A field experiment at a homeless shelter
Linardi, Sera; Tanaka, Tomomi - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 95 (2013) C, pp. 240-251
This paper describes a randomized field experiment testing the impact of a savings competition on the behavior of homeless individuals staying at a transitional shelter. When monetary prizes were offered for achieving the highest saving rates within a particular month, average savings increased...
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