Oswald, Yvonne; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - In: Journal of Public Economics 118 (2014) C, pp. 52-61
This paper investigates the effect of financial incentives on student performance and analyzes for the first time how the incentive effect in education is moderated by students' time preferences. To examine this effect, we use real labor market incentive programs that we combine with data from...