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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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9565
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Bram
Cadsby
Jim
Engle-Warnick
Tony
Fang
Fei
Song
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Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Tournaments are widely used to assign bonuses and determine promotions because of the link between relative performance and rewards. However, performing relatively well (poorly) may also yield ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79)
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J30, J24, J33, C93, C91
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9564
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Mario
Lackner
Rudi
Stracke
Uwe
Sunde
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field
This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, 2020, 179, 544-565)
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D84, D90, M51, J33
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9562
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Hugo
Reis
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Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan
The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling and mothers' labor market participation decision, in a rural area of Pakistan ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (2), 783-819)
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I25, I28
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9561
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Oana
Borcan
Mikael
Lindahl
Andreea
Mitrut
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Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (1), 180-209)
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I21, I24, K42
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9560
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Leanne
Giordono
Todd
Pugatch
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Informal Fee Elimination and Student Performance: Evidence from The Gambia
Informal school fees – for uniforms, books, and other supplies – are substantial in developing countries, often several times formal tuition. We evaluate a scholarship program that alleviated ...
(published as 'Non-tuition Costs, School Access and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2017, 26 (2), 140-168. )
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O15, I21, I25
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9559
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Pau
Balart
Matthijs
Oosterveen
Dinand
Webbink
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Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth
Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 63, 134-153)
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J24
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9558
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Seth
Gershenson
Alison
Jacknowitz
Andrew
Brannegan
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Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?
Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2017, 12(2): 137-165.)
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I21
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9556
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Stijn
Baert
Bart
Cockx
Matteo
Picchio
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Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School
A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (3), 403 - 424)
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C33, C35, I21
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9555
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Jens
Ruhose
Ludger
Woessmann
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486)
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I21, J24, O47
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9554
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Stephen
B.
Holt
Seth
Gershenson
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The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions
Representative bureaucracy theory is central to public administration scholarship due to the likely relationship between the demographic composition of the public workforce and both the actual and ...
(published in: Policy Studies Journal, 2019, 47(4), 1063-1093.)
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I2
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12991Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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