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We conduct an artefactual field experiment to study and compare the behavior of workers and students in a linear … find that both students and workers sanction group members who contribute less than the group average, and reward those who … contribute more. In both subject samples, the use of non-monetary sanctions and rewards induces more cooperation. The magnitude …
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We analyze a survey of 559 students to investigate how information about peers affects individuals' stated … contributions to a specific pro-environment program — a student “green fee.” Compared to students that receive no information about … peer contributions, the students that receive information about the dollar value range of contributions at peer …
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We introduce a new mechanism for matching students to schools or universities, denoted Iterative Deferred Acceptance … Mechanism (IDAM), inspired by procedures currently being used to match millions of students to public universities in Brazil and … would accept her given the current set of students choosing that college. Although the induced sequential game has no …
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Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
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Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
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Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
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Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modi ed version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
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Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …
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This study examines the depth of strategic reasoning among students by using classroom experiments. Several studies …, numerous laboratory studies have shown that the depth of strategic reasoning in regular students is limited, despite monetary … comparative classroom experiments for student athletes and regular students. The experimental results indicated that the student …
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