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Productivity versus motivation in adolescent human capital production: Evidence from a structurally-motivated field experiment
Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R.; List, John A.; … - 2020
adolescent human capital production. Our focus is inspired by the contemporary psychology of education literature, which … of how to lessen racial and gender achievement gaps. One general insight is that students who are falling behind their … peers, whether correlated to race, gender, or school district, are doing so because of academic efficiency rather than time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431087
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The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation : Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2021
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252072
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Using a Field Experiment to Understand Skill Formation in the Adolescent Years
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; List, John A.; Samek, Anya; … - 2022
novel aspects of the education production function. First, we document evidence of strong self-productivity in cognitive … executive functioning skills, and that the technology of skill formation itself is impacted by our treatments. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292672
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Parental Background and Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2012
children of parents with low education are more spiteful, more selfish and less altruistic. This link is robust to controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542317
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Relative performance feedback and long-term tasks : experimental evidence from higher education
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249919
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023424
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Peer effects on academic self-concept : a large randomized field experiment
Keller, Tamás; Kim, Jinho; Elwert, Felix - 2022
Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452464
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The effectiveness of teamwork for student academic outcomes : evidence from a field experiment
Banerjee, Ritwik; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Cassese, Daniele; … - 2024
An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075871
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409413
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491348