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Motivating low-achievers : relative performance feedback in primary schools

Hermes, Henning; Huschens, Martin; Rothlauf, Franz; … - 2020

Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and performance in the workplace and educational settings. Yet, many studies also document substantial negative effects of RPF, in particular for low-achievers. We study a novel type of RPF designed to overcome these...

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Peer effects in secondary education : evidence from trends in mathematics and science study 2015 based on weak-tie bonds

Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2019 - This version: February 2019

Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on sociological theory and using spatial regression techniques, I introduce social network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers within the class. In a spatial...

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Spatio-temporal variation in peer effects : the case of rooftop photovoltaic systems in Germany

Rode, Johannes; Müller, Sven - 2016

We study spatio-temporal variation of peer effects in rooftop photovoltaics adoption of households. Our investigation employs locational data on potential adopters and a geocoded data set of all grid-connected photovoltaic systems set up in Germany through 2010. The detailed locational data...

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The effect of pension design on employer costs and employee retirement choices : evidence from Oregon

Chalmers, John M. R.; Johnson, Woodrow T.; Reuter, Jonathan - In: Journal of public economics 116 (2014), pp. 17-34

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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 32-40

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Other-regarding preferences and incentives in the societal context

Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - 2020

The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of other-regarding preferences affect incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into...

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Willingness to pay attention for others : do social preferences predict attentional contribution?

Rafai, Ismael; Toumi, Mira - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 849-881

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Working for the "warm glow" : on the benefits and limits of prosocial incentives

Imas, Alex - In: Journal of public economics 114 (2014), pp. 14-18

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Economics and vulnerability : relationships, incentives, meritocracy

Bruni, Luigino - In: Economics as a moral science, (pp. 107-128). 2017

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Motivation and incentives in an online labor market

Fest, Sebastian; Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; … - 2020

Turk investigating the effects of monetary and non-monetary motivational instruments. In the first experiment, we study the … effects of performance pay and simple upfront messages (praise or reference points) on performance. The second experiment …. Sending simple messages, however, can have a significantly negative effect on output. The results from the second experiment …

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