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Jan Feld

Researcher at Victoria University of Wellington

Publications -  26
Citations -  445

Jan Feld is an academic researcher from Victoria University of Wellington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Random assignment & Wage. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 26 publications receiving 348 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan Feld include University of Gothenburg.

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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

TL;DR: This paper found that students on average benefit from better-ability peers and low-ability students are harmed by highability peers, and that peer effects are driven by improved student interaction rather than adjustments in teachers' behavior or students' effort.
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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections, and found that low-achieving students are harmed by high achieving peers.
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Endophilia or exophobia: beyond discrimination

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that a changing correlation between endophilia and exophobia can generate perverse predictions for observed market discrimination, and observe heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences.
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The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men's major choices and labor market outcomes and find that women who are randomly assigned to teaching sections with more female peers become less likely to choose male-dominated majors like finance and more likely to choosing female-dominated major like marketing after graduation.
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Estimating the relationship between skill and overconfidence

TL;DR: In this article, the authors restate the Dunning-kruger effect in terms of skill and overconfidence and show that the unskilled are more overconfident than the skilled.