Arbeitspapier
Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests: evidence from the GRE test
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in “high” and “low” stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger drop in performance between the high and low stakes examinations than females, and Whites exhibit a larger drop in performance compared to minorities. Differences between high and low stakes tests are partly explained by the fact that males and whites exert lower effort in low stakes tests compared to females and minorities.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7590
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Education and Inequality
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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high stakes
low stakes
GRE
incentives
experiment
performance
gender gap
race gap
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Schlosser, Analia
Neeman, Zvika
Attali, Yigal
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Schlosser, Analia
- Neeman, Zvika
- Attali, Yigal
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2019
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