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 …

This paper presents the result of a field experiment on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on pupils … and (iii) a delegation of choice over incentives. The effect of non-monetary incentives depends on pupils' socio …, predetermined non-monetary incentives crowd out intrinsic motivation for pupils in High Schools. In contrast, the endogenous choice …

incentives for publications have been designed, with the aim of involving the faculty in the production of knowledge and … incentives for research in universities, conducting a review of major theoretical contributions to moral hazard problems and … discussing policies of incentives for research in the light of these concepts …

This paper examines how grade incentives affect student learning across a variety of courses at two universities, using … previously tested in the economics literature generally. All are rejected in our data. Either grade incentives do not influence …