What You Don’t Know... Can’t Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance
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Keywords
Relative performance feedback; Ranking; Randomized field experiment; School performance;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
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