Fabian Kosse

This paper shows that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from a low socio-economic status family. A low-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of disadvantaged children and reduce inequality of opportunity.

19.09.2025 04:53 — 👍 32    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1

Trust and helpfulness decline significantly when young people are exposed to high competitive pressure at school. (Image: ChatGPT / Fabian Kosse)

Enduring competitive pressure not only changes young people's behaviour, but also their personality: they become less prosocial. New paper @fabiankosse.bsky.social et al. @jeeanews.bsky.social #prosociality
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03.09.2025 06:10 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The persistent effect of competition on prosociality Abstract. We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the literature on tournaments

Huge thanks to @jeeanews.bsky.social, the editors & referees for a fast, productive review process – it really made the paper better

doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

02.09.2025 15:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Abstract of the paper

@michelatincani.bsky.social, Ranjita Rajan and I are very proud and thrilled that our paper “The Persistent Effect of Competition on Prosociality” has been accepted at @jeeanews.bsky.social

👉 First causal evidence that enduring competition persistently reduces prosociality

doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

02.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Graph showing the effect of PACE on admissions and on enrolment or graduation over time. Preferential college admission is gaining traction worldwide as a means to address inequality in higher education, drawing greater attention to the design of such policies. This column analyses a programme for disadvantaged high schools in Chile that offers guaranteed college admission to top-performing students. The programme increased enrolment in selective colleges but reduced pre-college academic effort and test scores as students incorrectly believed college admission was guaranteed. Addressing students’ misunderstandings could mitigate the negative incentive effects while preserving the policy’s enrolment benefits.

A preferential college admission programme in #Chile increased enrolment in selective colleges but reduced pre-college academic effort and test scores due to student misunderstanding.
@michelatincani.bsky.social‬ @fabiankosse.bsky.social & Enrico Miglino
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18.08.2025 08:57 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Enduring competition makes people less cooperative. A 2-year competition in schools made students less prosocial (less willing to help or cooperate). Even 4 years later, the effect was still there, suggesting it changed their personality traits, not just their short-term behavior

11.08.2025 13:55 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier (University of Berkely, California) & Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) 🫶🏻

Submission deadline 15 May 🚨

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07.03.2025 13:27 — 👍 50    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 10

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, and I are thrilled that The Economic Journal accepted our paper titled ‘Malleability of Preferences for Honesty.’ It explores how the social environment influences lying. Huge thanks for a fast and productive referee process! 🥳
doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

08.07.2024 14:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Wie Ehrenamtliche die Schulen unterstützen"

Heute ab 17:30 bringt der Bayerische Rundfunk einen kleinen Beitrag über die Ergebnisse unsere Langzeitstudie zu "Balu und Du".

Hier der Link zum Beitrag
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06.11.2023 15:37 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0