Incentives and Student Learning: A Natural Experiment with Economics Problem Sets.

Part of a special issue presenting the papers and proceedings of the 118th annual meeting of the American Economic Association. A study was conducted using data from a natural experiment that occurred in 1998 in a principles of microeconomics course at Syracuse University in which 239 students were...

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Publicado en:American Economic Review Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 447 - 453
Autores principales: Grove, Wayne A., Wasserman, Tim
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Economic Association May 2006
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