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This paper uses a unique data set to measure peer effects among college age roommates. Freshman year roommates and dormmates are randomly assigned at Dartmouth College. I find that in this group, peer effects are very important in determining levels of academic effort and in decisions to join...
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More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …
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. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …
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. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …
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of this study was to determine what factors affect high school students’ (the next generation of leaders) altruistic … tendencies. My hypothesis was that the economic system of a student’s country would affect their degree of altruism and fairness …. Specifically, students living in socialist countries would tend to act fairer and more generously in economic decision-making since …
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academic procrastination among students of the Faculty of Economics, State University of Jakarta. This research took place from … September to December 2020 with 100 respondents, namely students of the Faculty of Economics, State University of Jakarta. This …
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. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …
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