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Replicating Schwardmann, Tripodi and van der Weele (AER 2022)

Brunetti, Roberto; Cameron, Alistair; Kpegli, Yao; … - 2024

Schwardmann et al. (2022) provide evidence from real-world debating competitions, that being randomly assigned to, and arguing for a given motion, increases one's own beliefs in the merit of the motion, and increases beliefs that factual statements in support of the motion, are correct. We...

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The Effect of Supplemental Instruction on Academic Performance : An Encouragement Design Experiment

Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2016

While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the "gold standard" for impact evaluation, they face numerous practical barriers to implementation. In some circumstances, a randomized-encouragement design (RED) is a viable alternative, but applications are surprisingly rare. We discuss the...

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Goal Setting and Raising the Bar : A Field Experiment

Lent, Max - 2017

We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students … a course-specific grade goal during one of the mentor-student meetings (goal treatment). A random subset of those … find that students in the goal treatment perform significantly better as compared to students in the control group, and …

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Need-Based Financial Aid and College Persistence Experimental Evidence from Wisconsin

Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Harris, Doug; Kelchen, Robert; … - 2012

We examine the impacts of a private need-based college financial aid program distributing grants at random among first-year Pell Grant recipients at thirteen public Wisconsin universities. The Wisconsin Scholars Grant of $3,500 per year required full-time attendance. Estimates based on four...

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Returns to Effort : Experimental Evidence from an Online Language Platform

Ersoy, Fulya - 2020

In spite of the growing market of online learning platforms, causal estimates regarding returns to effort in these platforms are scarce due to high attrition rates and endogeneity of effort. In a one-month long field experiment, I randomly assign participants to complete different number of...

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The Effects of the Flipped Classroom and Online Education

Ichino, Yasukazu; Seki, Mai - 2022

A flipped classroom lets students take a video lecture before class and work on practice problems during class, which literally "flips" the traditional teaching style's timing. This study estimates the impact of the flipped classroom on the learning outcomes of college students in an...

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Culture, feedback, and gender in education

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...

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Relative Performance Feedback and Long-Term Tasks – Experimental Evidence from Higher Education

Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, 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...

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Are Students Really Biased against Female Professors? - Experimental Evidence from India

Arora, Puneet; Roy, Moumita - 2023

We investigate the presence of gender bias in student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores with a natural field experiment in India. We employ a novel experimental design, randomly assigning 504 economics students to an identical audiovisual class taught either in a female or male voice. We find...

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Virtue Signals

Angeli, Deivis; Lowe, Matt; Team, The Village - 2023

We study whether tweets about racial justice predict the offline behaviors of nearly 20,000 US academics. In an audit study, academics that tweet about racial justice discriminate more in favor of minority students than academics that do not tweet about racial justice. Racial justice tweets are...

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