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Kremer, Michael - 2004

were ineligible for the awards, also showed sizeable average test gains, as did girls with low pretest scores, who were …

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Teacher Incentives

Glewwe, Paul - 2003

to teaching to the test.' We find evidence that existing teacher incentives in Kenya are indeed weak, with teachers … Kenya with incentives based on students' test scores. Students in program schools had higher test scores, significantly so … teachers increased effort to raise short-run test scores by conducting more test preparation sessions. While students in …

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Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms : An Experimental Investigation

Featherstone, Clayton - 2008

Criteria for evaluating school choice mechanisms are first, whether truth-telling is sometimes punished and second, how efficient the match is. With common knowledge preferences, Deferred Acceptance (DA) dominates the Boston mechanism by the first criterion and is ambiguously ranked by the...

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Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges : The Role of Institutions

Niederle, Muriel - 2008

We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory, we create an environment in which we can measure a participants performance level (high or low), where a high performance level participant has on average higher earnings from...

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Using Randomization in Development Economics Research : A Toolkit

Duflo, Esther - 2006

This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the rationale for the use of randomization, as a solution to selection bias and a partial solution to publication...

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Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?

Niederle, Muriel - 2005

Competitive high ranking positions are largely occupied by men, and women remain scarce in engineering and sciences. Explanations for these occupational differences focus on discrimination and preferences for work hours and field of study. We examine if absent these factors gender differences in...

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Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets

Lee, Soohyung - 2011

The large literature on costly signaling and the somewhat scant literature on preference signaling had varying success in showing the effectiveness of signals. We use a field experiment to show that even when everyone can send a signal, signals are free and the only costs are opportunity costs,...

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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Ahuja, Amrita - 2015

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …

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Gender

Niederle, Muriel - 2014

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in competition are large and robust, the results are much...

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Working Over Time : Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks

Augenblick, Ned - 2013

Experimental tests of dynamically inconsistent time preferences have largely relied on choices over time-dated monetary rewards. Several recent studies have failed to find the standard patterns of time inconsistency. However, such monetary studies contain often discussed confounds. In this...

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