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主讲人: Bing Xu
主讲人简介: Professor Bing Xu is a (full) professor at the Research Institute of Economics and Management at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Professor Xu applies both empirical and theoretical methods to investigate policy-relevant economic issues. Her current research area is the role of competition in society. Her works have appeared in a number of leading economic journals, and she is recognized as an International Excellent Young Scientist by China’s National Science Foundation.
主持人: Shihe Fu
简介: Rewards based on class rank are ubiquitous in schools throughout the world. In this paper we examine the consequences for student effort and performance when students are rewarded based on their relative class standing using game-theoretic competition models to guide our analysis Based on a competition model in which students within similar-ability peer groups recognize that their efforts will be matched, and in which stronger students assist weaker students, we derive comparative-static predictions for how changes in class student composition differentially affect student outcomes and effort across ability groups. We find empirically using a variety of identification methods applied to variations in school student composition due to the resettlement of large numbers of Southeast Asian refugees in the late 1970's and 1980's throughout the United States that, consistent with the competition cum peer-effect model but inconsistent with a Nash equilibrium competition model, increases in the number of (refugee) strong students reduce the effort levels of strong and weak incumbent students, decrease the test scores of incumbent strong students, but increase the test scores of weak incumbent students. Conversely, increases in the number of weak students decrease the effort and test scores of weak incumbent students but increase the effort and test scores of strong incumbent students. We also show that the findings we obtain on test score and effort level effects cannot be explained by the endogeneity of initial refugee location assignments, teacher adjustments in curriculum, selective classroom disruptions, parent shifts in homework assistance, labor-market effects, or by strong-student school exit.
时间: 2023-04-06 (Thursday) 16:40-18:00
地点: Room N302, Economics Building
期数: 高级经济学系列讲座2023年春季学期第二讲(总458讲)
主办单位: 厦门大学经济学院、王亚南经济研究院、邹至庄经济研究院
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类型: 系列讲座
联系人信息: 许老师,电话:0592-2182991
语言: English
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