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I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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Prior work has demonstrated that prosocial incentives - where individuals' effort benefits a charitable organization … - can be more effective than standard incentives, particularly when the stakes are low. Yet, little is known about the … effectiveness of prosocial incentives on people's decisions to participate or opt-in to the incentivized activity in the first place …
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Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 …
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without incentives can predict heterogeneity in charitable responses to peer decisions. We elicit beliefs about donations in a …
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preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments …
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experiment suggests that top performers are particularly motivated by the combination of team incentives and team RPF. In fact … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the …, team incentives motivate significantly higher top performance than individual incentives when the team is exposed to RPF …
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effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we …
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too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …
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This paper uses a novel experimental design to study the contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social proximity among peers. Across systematic variations thereof, we find that anti-social behavior is generally more contagious than pro-social behavior. Surprisingly, we also...
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observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …
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