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Small group instruction to improve student performance in mathematics in early grades : results from a randomized field experiment
Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Inés; … - 2021
years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction for 3 to 4 hours per week, for two periods of 4-6 weeks per … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …
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Ability peer effects in university : evidence from a randomized experiment
Booij, Adam S.; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2015
-way tracking. Their dropout rate is reduced by 15 percentage points (relative to a mean of 0.6). High-ability students are …
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Closing the gender STEM gap : a large-scale randomized-controlled trial in elementary schools
Grosch, Kerstin; Haeckl, Simone; Kocher, Martin - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013350359
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Small Group Instruction to Improve Student Performance in Mathematics in Early Grades: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment
Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Ines; … - 2021
years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction for 3 to 4 hours per week, for two periods of 4-6 weeks per … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799743
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Psychological pressure in competitive environments : evidence from a randomized natural experiment ; comment
Kocher, Martin; Lenz, Marc V.; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...
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Giving in a large economy : price vs. non-price effects in a field experiment
Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo - 2011
We conduct a large-scale field experiment with 2,440 subjects in which we exogenously vary the price of contributing to the closest empirical counterpart of an infinitely large public good, climate change mitigation. We find that the price effect is robust and negative, but quantitatively weak,...
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Reducing prejudice through actual and imagined contact : a field experiment with Malawian shopkeepers and Chinese immigrants
Gu, Jun; Mueller, Annika; Nielsen, Ingrid; Shachat, Jason M. - 2015
We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate the effect of in-group bias on economic outcomes. Specifically, we employ randomized experiments to test whether actual and imagined contact is effective in reducing prejudice between indigenous Malawian shopkeepers (in-group), and their...
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom’s labour market : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick - In: Human relations 68 (2015) 11, pp. 1769-1796
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Learning about job search : a field experiment with job seekers in Germany
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Jäger, Simon; … - 2015
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment received a brochure that informed them about job search...
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An examination of consumer willingness to pay for local products
Adalja, Aaron; Hanson, James C.; Towe, Charles; … - In: Agricultural and resource economics review : ARER 44 (2015) 3, pp. 253-274
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