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Showing 1 to 20 of 581 for “"Experimental evidence"”.
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Inentives and Education: Experimental Evidence from Medellin, Colombia
<p>This research uses an experimental design to investigate how incentive structure influences goal achievement among disadvantaged high school students in Medellin, Colombia. Of particular interest is how treatment effects influence school performance as well as how this may vary with differing …
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Can Management Improve Productivity? Experimental Evidence from Education
… 15-year-old European pupil. This study provides experimental evidence of the power of management to boost the learning production of public schools. We developed a new management programme to improve school management at the cost of USD PPP GDP 15.22 per pupil per year. No financial incentive. No …
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Economies with public projects: theory and experimental evidence
… the private provision of public projects is experimentally investigated with a double oral auction market for assets that are required in order to produce public projects. The first paper (Chapter 2), "Economies with Multiple Public Projects" (joint work with Robert P. Gilles), discusses an …
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Omega-3 fatty acids and depression: epidemiological and experimental evidence
… on patients with bipolar disorder, whereas no evidence was found for those exploring their efficacy on depressive symptoms in young populations, perinatal depression, primary disease other than depression (i.e., patients with schizophrenia, Alzheimer disease, cardiovascular disease) and healthy …
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Does Poverty Really Impede Cognitive Function? Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Fishers
… scarcity really impede cognitive function? Using experimental evidence from Tanzanian fishers, this study examines the connection between poverty and cognitive function. Fishers in the experiment are tested on how exposure to a ‘scarcity trigger’ impacts cognition and productivity through …
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First experimental evidence of the Giant Pairing Vibration in atomic nuclei
… the two observed bumps correspond to the first experimental excitation of the long searched GPV.
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More Choices or Help Choosing?: Experimental Evidence on Helping Firms Hire
… other matches, I find that little if any of the experimental increase was coming at the expense of the control group. In decomposing the reasons for the increased hiring, I find evidence that both (a) and (b) were important, but with recruiting help being about three times more important than …
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The Effects of Options Markets on the Underlying Markets: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
… assets. The first two essays use different quasi-experimental econometric techniques to answer the same research question: how does option listing affect the return volatility of the underlying stock? This question is difficult to answer empirically because being listed on an options exchange is …
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Three essays on health economics: Theoretical and experimental evidence on physician behavior
Hace unos años trabajé con un equipo de médicos de diferentes especialidades clínicas en proyectos de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias. Durante estas interacciones pude conocer particularidades de la toma de decisiones clínica, que, por sus implicaciones económicas, llamaron mi atención. Por …
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Experimental evidence that group foragers can converge on predicted producer-scrounger equilibria
… worse when common. This study provides the first experimental support for the use of the producer-scrounger game in group foraging contexts. A total of five flocks of spice finches (Lonchura punctulata) were used on two experiments. Payoffs were measured by feeding rate (seeds/s) in two feeding …
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Shared Leadership: Experimental Evidence On Its Antecedents and Impact on Team Outcomes
… leadership and teams and employed an iterative experimental design to investigate the emergence of shared leadership through its antecedents (i.e., power structure and role assignment) and examine its impact on team outcomes (i.e., productivity, adaptability and innovation). The relationship …
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Evaluating subsidy programmes for ecological conservation: insights from quasi-experimental and experimental evidence
… NFPP, which provides highly relevant empirical evidence for the debate surrounding the property right reform of China’s state-owned forests and natural resource governance in developing countries. Subsequent chapters address the challenges in current conservation efforts, focusing on Payments …
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The role of gender, ethnicity and harambee in corruption : experimental evidence from Kenya
This thesis uses experimental games which are novel in the Kenyan context to examine the extent to which individual attributes such as gender and ethnicity might influence the propensity to offer or accept a bribe, or to punish individuals who engage in such activities. In addition, this thesis …
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Designing policy feedback : experimental evidence on the everyday politics of the social contract
… shape attitudes toward government, using experimental methods grounded in a comparative perspective. I explore traditional policy design factors -- the defining aspects of policies that shape "who gets what", which I term 'macro design' -- alongside factors receiving less attention in the …
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Goal Effectiveness in Achieving Educational Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from 9th Graders in Medellin, Colombia
… classrooms were assigned to five different experimental groups that met systematically for five months. The results show that goal setting is a cost-effective method to help low-income students achieve educational outcomes. Setting a goal significantly increases a subject’s probability of …
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Effect of Non-Monetary Incentives on Women's Competitive Inclination: Experimental evidence from Ancona, Italy
<p>This study investigates how monetary incentives versus non-monetary incentives affect women’s decision to enter a competitive environment. This study was conducted in Ancona Italy, in a controlled laboratory experiment with a total of 60 participants; of which 29 were male and 31 were female. …
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A low-cost, low-intensity contingency management smoking cessation programme with students: Experimental evidence
Tobacco consumption is a pressing global issue, leading to more than five million deaths each year. In South Africa, the smoking prevalence rate is stubbornly high, implying that a successful smoking cessation programme could have large social benefits, particularly if it targets young smokers. …
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The relationship between multiple identity attributes and diversity, and individual decision making and group performance: experimental evidence.
The effect of diversity on individual behavior and team and organizational performance is a rapidly growing field of study. Another growing field of study involves the effect of identity-based behavior on individual, team, and organizational outcomes. Diversity and identity, although related to …
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