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The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance
Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2012
influence educational performance. Several insights emerge. First, we find that incentives framed as losses have more robust … effects than comparable incentives framed as gains. Second, we find that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost …-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were not effective with older students. Finally, and perhaps most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309241
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Emissions Trading Regimes and Incentives to Participate in International Climate Agreements
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo - 2003
This paper analyses whether different emissions trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325133
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Mentoring, educational services, and economic incentives: Longer-term evidence on risky behaviors from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
evidence is consistent with different models of youths' behavioral response to economic incentives. In addition, beneficial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269755
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School and drugs: Closing the gap - Evidence from a randomized trial in the US
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012
We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287665
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Impatience and credit behavior: Evidence from a field experiment
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - 2007
This paper tests whether heterogeneity of time preferences can explain individual credit behavior. In a field experiment targeting individuals from low-to-moderate income households, we measure individual time preferences through choice experiments, and then match these time preference measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280936
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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: Threats and bargaining
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480363
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Ability, parental valuation of education and the high school dropout decision
Foley, Kelly; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Green, David A. - 2009
We use a large, rich Canadian micro-level dataset to examine the channels through which family socio-economic status and unobservable characteristics aff ect children's decisions to drop out of high school. First, we document the strength of observable socio-economic factors: our data suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275719
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The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 16
Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Goodman, Alissa - 2010
It is well known that children growing up in poor families leave school with considerably lower qualifications than children from better off backgrounds. Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275764
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Identifying the Incidence of "Grading on a Curve": A Within-Student Across-Subject Approach
Piopiunik, Marc; Schlotter, Martin - 2012
Theoretical work shows that grading on a curve, i.e., teachers assessing students relativeto their classmates, can negatively affect students' learning effort. However, little isknown about its empirical incidence. To overcome bias from non-random sorting andomitted variables like teachers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312189
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Classroom peer effects and student achievement
Burke, Mary A.; Sass, Tim R. - 2008
In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers on individual student performance with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many previous data sets used to study peer effects in education, our data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280886