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agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
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agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
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Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …
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experiments involving thousands of primary and secondary school students, we demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to …-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were not effective with older students. Finally, and perhaps most … incentives, many students put forth low effort on standardized tests, which may create biases in measures of student ability …
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Kulturelle Angebote an Hochschulen haben eine lange Tradition. Fast jede Hochschule in Deutschland bietet ihren …, warum Studierende an diesen Angeboten teilneh men. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das Bedürfnis nach Gemeinschaftserfahrung … Hochschule. Die Möglichkeit, in einem geschützten Rahmen Neues ausprobieren zu können, die Erfahrung von Selbstwirksamkeit sowie …
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We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...
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Im Jahr 2006 haben etwa 155 000 Deutsche ihr Land verlassen - mehr als je zuvor, sieht man einmal von der Auswanderungswelle der Nachkriegszeit in den 50er Jahren ab. Allerdings kehren auch viele Deutsche in ihre Heimat zurück. Obwohl die Frage nach den Ursachen für diesen Anstieg mittlerweile...
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von uns befragten jungen Akademiker haben nach dem Studium ein (oder mehrere) Praktika absolviert. Dabei wurde nur etwa …
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Higher education is never free - the question is: who should pay for it? Current policy debates in Europe are increasingly focusing on raising the share of private funding. To date, policy discussions have centred on a relatively small number of alternatives, namely full public funding, tuition...
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