What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

What makes cheap talk effective? Experimental evidence

In some environments, a player only learns the choice of another player if he or she undertakes a risky choice. While costless preplay communication (cheap talk) has been found to be effective in experimental coordination games, participants have typically learned both own payoffs and the other player’s action. Are both of these components necessary for cheap talk to be effective? In our 2 2 st...

What makes an effective executive.

An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the typical sense of the word. Peter Drucker, the author of more than two dozen HBR articles, says some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs he has worked with over his 65-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They ranged from extroverted to nearly reclusive, from easygoing to controlling, from generous to parsimonious. ...

What Makes an Allocation Fair? Some Experimental Evidence

We explore three two-person public goods games with similar equilibrium predictions, but with different rules of the game, different payoff possibilities, and, as we show, different choices by subjects. Comparisons among games allow inferences of what may or may not determine when the equilibrium prediction is a good approximation of actual behavior. We find that the equilibrium prediction can ...

What makes a competent clinical teacher?

BACKGROUND Clinical teaching competency is a professional necessity ensuring that clinicians' knowledge, skills and attitudes are effectively transmitted from experts to novices. The aim of this paper is to consider how clinical skills are transmitted from a historical and reflective perspective and to link these ideas with student and teacher perceptions of competence in clinical teaching. M...

What Makes Performance Appraisals Effective?