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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. …
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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/10012314944
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/10012317253
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/10012499810
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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Achieving success often requires persistent effort. We study the effectiveness of two reward mechanisms, all-or-nothing and piece-rate, to incentivize full completion of repeated tasks over time. Our theoretical analysis shows that exogenously imposing the all-or-nothing mechanism can be...
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This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance based monetary incentives in the … incentives in the given task. However, regular students do react in the expected way: Teachers transmit a significantly higher …
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In this paper, I document evidence that intergovernmental incentives inherent in public sector defined benefit pension …
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incentives has increased by more than 40% since 2004. Evidence on individual incentives in developed countries is mixed, with … that incentives can be highly effective and far cheaper to implement. Innovative incentive mechanisms such as incentives …
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Researchers commonly "shrink" raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation's statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility-maximizing decisionmaker, for many asymmetric information environments. The presence of an...
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