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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter - 2014
that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048270
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter - 2014
that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046682
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The more business owners the merrier? : the role of tertiary education
Praag, Mirjam van; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2011
Policy in developed countries is often based on the assumption that higher business ownership rates induce economic value. Recent microeconomic empirical evidence casts doubts on the validity of this assumption or, at least, leads to a more nuanced view: Especially the top performing business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386434
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures:Evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expectedto be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompetingexplanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of boardmonitoring is hidden in stock price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861853
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Wage Structure and the Incentive Effect of Promotions
Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Kees; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257489
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands
Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Kees - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompeting explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762239
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Wage Structure and the Incentive Effect of Promotions
Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Kees; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144477
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The value relevance of top executive departures
Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453242
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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions
Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337995
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures : Evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Cornelis - 2014
On theoretical grounds, internal monitoring of top executives by the supervisory board is expected to result in positive abnormal returns subsequent to the announcement of their unanticipated forced departures. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752660