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With the growth globalization, an attribute that has gained recognition as a determinant in consumer purchasing is the food’s County-of-Origin. In 2002, congress first passed Country-of Origin Labeling (COOL) laws, but ran into much resistance from the food industry due to the cost that would...
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In this study, we examine the impact of a student's household socioeconomic status (SES) rank within a class on two … effect from the variation of a within-class SES rank of students assigned to different schools and classes, controlling the … incidences, students with a high SES rank within a class are more likely to be the victims of school bullying and to be absent …
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This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank … effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric …
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. Additional analyses emphasize the role of inequality in exacerbating these rank effects. …-cohort differences in the distributions of socioeconomic status within schools in a linear fixed effects model to identify a causal rank … effect. I find that a higher rank during high school improves a student's depression scores, cognitive ability, self …
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We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...
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This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank …
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We explore whether the tendency for smaller firms to have fewer hierarchical layers explains the well-documented inverse correlation between firm size and the rate at which employees become business owners. Our analysis is based on a Swedish matched employer-employee dataset. Conditional on firm...
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rank dynamics. We focus on nonlinear dependence between the current and lagged worker's ranks in the wage residuals … stuck at the bottom of the wage rank distribution year after year. …
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This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting … estimate the impact of class rank. We find large effects on test scores, confidence, and subject choice during secondary school …
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This article establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has … to estimate the impact of class rank. We find large effects on test scores, confidence, and subject choice during …
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