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endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than …
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We conduct a study of altruistic behavior among high school students using the dictator game. We find a much stronger norm of equal splitting than previously observed in the typical university student population, with almost 45% of high school subjects choosing an equal split of the endowment....
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We conduct dictator games in our artefactual field experiment with 11th and 12th grade students in New Delhi, India. We …
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groups of people. In this paper, we use a field experiment among students aged 11-16 years to study whether there is a …
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We investigate the short-term impact of out-of-home care on child health, schooling and juvenile crime. Using an event study to examine the dynamics around the time of placement, we document a clear deterioration of mental health and increasing crime rates before placement. After placement, we...
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experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market discrimination is indeed a major barrier in the transition to …
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employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth … matters. While encouraging results are found for the younger youth; detrimental long-lived outcomes for males suggest that … extrinsic rewards may be crowding out intrinsic motivation. Evidence by sites' funding source, which led to implementation …
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’ engagement with the academic aspect of school life. We carried out a large-scale preregistered randomized field experiment with a …-efficacy, motivation, and test anxiety, obtained from an online survey before students’ exams. In the whole sample, we did not find an … treated students reported higher self-efficacy than the control students. The treatment affected students’ motivation before …
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performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic … intrinsic motivation for students with low skills, while girls also respond less to rank-based incentives if tested with less …
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