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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental investigation
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511649
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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487031
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Implementierung quotas in university admissions : an experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671326
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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modi ed version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408398
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Implementing Quotas in University Admissions : An Experimental Analysis
Braun, Sebastian - 2011
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117132
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Social pressure, uncertainty, and cooperation
Huck, Steffen; Kübler, Dorothea - In: Economics of Governance 1 (2000) 3, pp. 199-212
such as cooperation in a public project may increase if there is some uncertainty about who has cooperated before. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005759969
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Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge of the game structure and feedback about choices in the previous period, we run treatments (i) without feedback about previous play, (ii) with no information about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822932
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The willingness to pay-willingness to accept gap: A failed replication of Plott and Zeiler
Fehr, Dietmar; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 2015
We report on experiments to replicate Plott and Zeiler's (2005) findings that the WTP-WTA gap disappears when using procedures that are aimed at reducing misunderstandings, such as training rounds for the BDM mechanism. Following the design by Plott and Zeiler (2005) and Isoni, Loomes, and...
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Why votes have value: Instrumental voting with overconfidence and overestimation of others' errors
Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; … - In: Games and Economic Behavior 84 (2014) C, pp. 17-38
We perform an experiment in which subjects bid for participating in a vote. The setting precludes conflicts of interests or direct benefits from voting. The theoretical value of participating in the vote is therefore zero if subjects have only instrumental reasons to vote and form correct...
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - In: Games and Economic Behavior 85 (2014) C, pp. 232-251
each university for a special subgroup of students. The first mechanism mimics the sequential procedure currently used by … eligible students and then allocates all remaining seats among those who were not already assigned one of the reserved seats in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049830