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 …

The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point … exam score (PES). The experiment involved two classes of third-year economics students incentivized by a competitive reward …

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 …

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 study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …

we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …-estimate their predicted test score. However, females, white and working class students have less inflated view of themselves. Self …