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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP9862 |
DP9862 Tuition fees as a commitment device | |
Hessel Oosterbeek; Bas van der Klaauw; Nadine Ketel | |
发表日期 | 2014-03-02 |
出版年 | 2014 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer tutorial sessions. For the full sample, we find little support for this hypothesis, but we find a significant effect of sunk costs on attendance for the 45% of students in our sample who are categorized as sunk-cost prone based on hypothetical survey questions. For them higher tuition fees can serve as a commitment device to attend classes. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Field experiment Higher education Sunk-cost effect |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9862 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538696 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hessel Oosterbeek,Bas van der Klaauw,Nadine Ketel. DP9862 Tuition fees as a commitment device. 2014. |
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