distort incentives to mask across gender. Consistent with the framework, a survey reveals that students anticipate that female …

Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives - as present … in relevant economic decisions - on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely … incentives, standard lab payments, and very high incentives that increase the stakes by a factor of 100 to more than a monthly …

intervention, respectively: 1) teaching, and 2) providing financial incentives to learners. In theory, teaching and learner-incentives …

examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …

with an online education platform run in the field (n=1,373), in which we randomize incentives to complete course modules … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … which we randomize incentives to complete a survey three weeks later and the price of reminders to complete the survey. In …

of financial incentives on student achievement. In stark contrast to simple economic models, our results suggest that … student incentives increase achievement when the rewards are given for inputs to the educational production function, but … incentives tied to output are not effective. Relative to popular education reforms of the past few decades, student incentives …