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students in two ways. The “payoff” in the game involves the possibility of students earning a small number of extra points …. Also, we find that presenting experimental results to students enhances their interest in the material. For example, we … find evidence that female students are less likely to “defect” than are male students, and that international students are …
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students’ perceived impact of teaching evaluations, (2) communicate a descriptive norm of high participation, and (3) use the … commitment-consistency principle by asking students to commit to participation. We find that none of the nudges were effective … evidence that the effectiveness of both the impact and commitment treatments differed across students. The impact treatment had …
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This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of … a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …
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I present a classroom experiment designed to help students learn (1) decision-making using marginal analysis; (2) the … lies in its comprehensiveness and in the identical opportunities faced by all students.The experiment has two parts. There … level; these classes have varied in size from 20 to 200 students …
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This paper presents a classroom experiment in cooperative behavior. Students make production decisions as a cartel and …
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: communication and individual property rights. In the first and second experiments, students jointly own a renewable resource in the … form of a plate of M&Ms. Communication is not allowed in the first experiment, whereas in the second experiment students …
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can be run in large classes, requires only six students …
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