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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 … more strongly to decreased monitoring, but no significant gender difference in the extent to which workers are influenced …
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experimentally. We executed a large and pre-registered field experiment that randomized students to deskmates within 195 classrooms … testing. Contrary to theory, our randomized field experiment thus provides no evidence for an effect of peer achievement on …
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-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes …
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We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any … – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender … heterogeneity that we test by means of a real-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information on …
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We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a … second individual test after the conclusion of the experiment. …
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a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …
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presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …
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, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is … reveal that within-gender peer effects have approximately twice the influence of cross-gender peer effects on wages for both … characterized by greater gender equality. …
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