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Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2021 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that...
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This paper presents evidence showing that a libertarian paternalistic intervention having significant but uneven effects on the student procrastination of a coursework assignment. We observe the degree of procrastination in a language course at a Japanese university with individuals’...
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We use a broad sample of students to provide insight into the course selection process. Consistent with a learning … better use of the information available to them. We also find evidence for a social learning process in that students rely … heavily on advice from peers in selecting courses. Finally, students appear to be learning how to learn: As they gain college …
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increases students' learning motivation. This paper presents an empirical study that investigated the middle-school students … learning health education courses related to human body structure knowledge integrating AR technology with different learning … revealed that students in the AR experimental group apparently had a higher learning achievement than the students in the …
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We examine how informational frictions impact schooling and work outcomes. To do so, we estimate a dynamic structural model where individuals face uncertainty about their academic ability and productivity, which respectively determine their schooling utility and wages. Our framework accounts for...
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This paper reviews experiments that include two types of subjects: professionals and students. The typical subject pool for economic experiments is composed of students. Professionals are loosely defined as people working in an industry where the game under study is thought to be relevant. The...
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This paper provides practical guidance for researchers who are designing and analyzing studies that randomize schools - which comprise three levels of clustering (students in classrooms in schools) - to measure intervention effects on student academic outcomes when information on the middle...
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We study individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly faced with the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategies adopted, and use of punishment opportunities. Students...
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