Area (EHEA) based on a real case study of students that belong to five European Universities (University of Burgos … Cologne). The objective of this paper is two-fold: on the one hand, to analyze from the student’s point of view how they value … the restructuring of teaching as a result of the Bologna process and what are the implications for students with regards …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the … men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …

This paper analyses the effects of independent-school competition on Sweden's performance in TIMSS, an international … low-stakes test in mathematics and science among students in year 8. Exploiting variation in independent-school enrolment … shares across counties over time, it finds that increasing competition has improved TIMSS scores, an impact that appears only …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …