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We find that knowledge spillover in the classroom depends on how peer personalities differ. In addressing the issue of within-group sorting, we conducted our field experiment within primary school classrooms where a pair of deskmates forms the smallest possible designated peer group. We further...
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observable exogenous variables on the grade performance of students in economics courses at four half-year intervals. We apply a … predictive power of high school grades and other measures of cognitive abilities declines only slightly as students progress. In … contrast, any gender differences among economics students are of a transitory nature …
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-Market with Priorities mechanism, prevents justified course envy, prevents Pareto improvements among students respecting the … priority structure, is strategy-proof in the large, bounds envy by a single course among students at the same level of priority …
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problem set effects for. Graded problem sets raised the average students' exam performance enough to increase their course GPA … by one-third of a letter grade. Hardworking, scholastically below-average students' receive additional academic …
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The thesis „Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study“ analyzes the individuals' decision-making and the role of institutions in creating incentives and influencing individuals' choices. The first part is descriptive and theoretical and deeply rooted in behavioral public...
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experiment method with 101 higher education students. The results of this experiment confirmed our hypotheses that the better …
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