Chevalier, Arnaud; Dolton, Peter; Lührmann, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to … student effort, and ii) controlled cross-group variation in assessment weighting. Assessment weighting strongly encourages … quiz participation, without displacing effort over the year. We estimate the return to a quiz at around 0.15 of a standard …