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This paper describes a classroom experiment that illustrates the research and development investment incentives facing firms when technological spillovers are present. The game involves two stages in which student sellers first make investment decisions then production decisions. The classroom...
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Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …
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scale competition. In the Netherlands free parental choice is present since the beginning of the 20th century, which can be … characterized as a full voucher program with 100% funding. Based on panel data for the Netherlands we show that there is a relation …
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While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...
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We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation. In doing so, we propose a novel group identity induction procedure that succeeds in creating environments where in-group bias is either high or low. At the individual level,...
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conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers are …
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the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this study focuses on (800) students in the … Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …
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with real monetary rewards conducted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These …
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costs later on. We test for hoarding of university computers by students. Endogeneity of congestion is acknowledged by using …
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Using a discontinuity in the funding scheme, we evaluate the impact of home visits and child care centers on poor children and mothers in Ecuador. We find that home visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for mothers' psychological well-being but reduce mothers'...
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