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How can geographical proximity to college explain field of study choices? We empirically address this question using the major expansion of university colleges in Norway in the second half of the twentieth century, when 33 new education institutions were established in areas that did not...
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-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
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-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
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conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are …
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Under-participation in selective universities lowers social mobility in England, the United States, and elsewhere. English universities have standardized tuition costs, and strongly heterogeneous graduate earnings. Attending a selective university is therefore strongly incentivized, yet...
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We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of … experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …
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We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the … a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …
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We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students …
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