-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay … next year. Our results show consistent evidence that teachers do not respond to the incentives they face under this program …

school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school …. The effects are largest for male students entering high school, whose truancy rates decline by 21% in the months after …

that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … framed as losses. Our findings imply that in the absence of immediate incentives, many students put forth low effort on … students, we demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to influence educational performance. Several insights emerge. First …

economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative …

possible explanations. Two are explored. The most traditional is that the prospect of promotion provides incentives which …

incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold increase in participation compared to non-pecuniary incentives alone … organization consisting of a combination of pecuniary and altruistic incentives associated with the mission of the organization …

behaviors. A performance appraisal system based on continuous temporal incentives, on the other hand, has the potential to …