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Age, cohort and co-authorship
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477885
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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028161
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868008
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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?
Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019
This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022698
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Motivating low-achievers - relative performance feedback in primary schools
Hermes, Henning; Huschens, Martin; Rothlauf, Franz; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 187 (2021), pp. 45-59
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Motivating low-achievers : relative performance feedback in primary schools
Hermes, Henning; Huschens, Martin; Rothlauf, Franz; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195536
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Motivating low-achievers : relative performance feedback in primary schools
Hermes, Henning; Huschens, Martin; Rothlauf, Franz; … - 2020
Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and performance in the workplace and educational settings. Yet, many studies also document substantial negative effects of RPF, in particular for low-achievers. We study a novel type of RPF designed to overcome these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424267
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Publication rate expressed by age, gender and academic position – A large-scale analysis of Norwegian academic staff
Rørstad, Kristoffer; Aksnes, Dag W. - In: Journal of Informetrics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 317-333
This study investigates how scientific performance in terms of publication rate is influenced by the gender, age and … fields analysed, the regression model can explain 13.5–19 per cent of the variance in the publication output at the levels of … individuals. This also means that most of the variance in publication rate is due to other factors. …
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Are females scared of competing with males? : results from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013
We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental design was aimed at disentangling gender...
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Splash with a teammate : peer effects in high-stakes tournaments
Jiang, Lingqing - 2016
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