incentives to high school seniors in an experimental demonstration program. As a theoretical matter, such incentives may be … outcomes in an effort to determine how students responded to incentives. These results show students took more tests and were …

offering substantial cash incentives in two demonstration programs. As a theoretical matter, cash incentives may be helpful if …

. Another ("incentives") was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A … students offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades … of the fact that incentives were given in the first year only. The results suggest that the study skills acquired in …

suggest that a combination of services and incentives is more promising than either alone …

efforts to go from local average treatment effects (LATE) to population average treatment effects are inherently speculative … tenuous. Another interesting finding is that for the sample of teen mothers, LATE is essentially equal to the population …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … families drawn from a population registry. Our results show no evidence of a quantity-quality trade-off, though some estimates … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade …