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When do teachers respond to student feedback? : evidence from a field experiment
Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2020
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback....
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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349849
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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472903
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Gender and the Labor Market : What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054601
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Three essays in empirical and experimental development economics : pro-social behavior, monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Edward - 2014
The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the … methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social behavior) across Sub-Saharan Africa. In this chapter, we consider the … micro-economic determinants of corruption behavior and provides implications for institutions. In addition, the 2004 World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297189
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Corrupt reciprocity : an experiment
Lambsdorff, Johann; Frank, Björn - 2007
We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of … negative reciprocity. -- Corruption ; ultimatum game ; whistleblowing ; gender ; signaling ; trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425287
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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2009
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896189
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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2012
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378827
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224592
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Gender differences in shirking : monitoring or social preferences?
Johansson, Per-Olov; Karimi, Arizo; Nilsson, J. Peter - 2014
This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence, we find that also non-treated workers increased their...
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