We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students' effort. We … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students …, a cooperative scheme that promotes information sharing and collaboration between students and a control treatment in …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of test scores at the higher secondary level (grade 12 …) in public schools in Delhi, India. Using the value added approach, we find substantial variation in teacher and student …