We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …

We evaluate a Finnish student financing reform which created substantial financial incentives for on-time graduation … findings in the literature that students do not seem to process financial incentives well when framed as a loan. …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …

This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to … engage in online tests. Our identification strategy exploits i) weekly variation in incentives to determine their impact on …

. 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 …

advertising messages matter. Several common nudging techniques - such as text messages, lottery-based economic incentives, and …

those reported in previous studies for the United States and other countries. -- Higher education ; financial incentives …