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Using goals to motivate college students : theory and evidence from field experiments
Clark, Damon; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria; Rush, Mark - 2018 - This version: December 19, 2018
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255550
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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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How Large is the Endowment Effect in the Risky Investment Game?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin - 2021
The risky investment game of Gneezy and Potters (1997) has been a popular tool used to estimate risk tolerance and myopic loss aversion. Holden and Tilahun (2021) tested and found that the simple one-shot version of this game that is attractive as a simple tool to elicit risk tolerance among...
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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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Tuition fees as a commitment device
Ketel, Nadine; Linde, Jona; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...
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Gender peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Ewijk, Reyn - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 51-63
Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of females in the classroom on achievement of males and females. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to higher education. We conduct an experiment in which the shares of females in...
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses? income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
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