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Grades and Rank : Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance
Jalava, Nina - 2014
How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test … non-financial incentives play an important role in motivating highly skilled students to exert more effort. We find … reward. The motivational strengths of the non- financial incentives differ across the test score distribution, across the …
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Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance
Camargo, Braz - 2014
managers in private schools by affecting the market incentives faced by such schools. We also develop a model of school and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058726
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Asian Segregation and Scholastic Achievement : Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City
D'Este, Rocco - 2018
This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and schools stemming from a fertility shock among Asian population in the Chinese year of the Dragon....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912785
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Understanding the Response to High-Stakes Incentives in Primary Education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2021
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314993
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Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments
Arold, Benjamin W.; Hufe, Paul; Stöckli, Marc - 2022
Genetic endowments are fixed at conception and matter for the educational attainment of individuals. Do investments in schooling environments mitigate or magnify the outcomes of this genetic lottery? Using data from a representative sample of US adolescents, we analyze the interdependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080615
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Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera : Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?
Coulangeon, Philippe; Fougère, Denis - 2022
This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, aiming at preventing school dropout and tackling educational inequalities by providing...
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Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education
Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022
We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by predictions from this framework we find that an increase in...
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Peer Gender and Schooling : Evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2022
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240828
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Africa's Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318289
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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J. - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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