This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …

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 …

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

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. …

problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are … endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … revenues are distributed evenly among universities there is free riding. To solve this problem each university should be …

problem arises when students’ efforts to raise lifetime income and universities’ activities to improve teaching quality are … endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … revenues are distributed evenly among universities there is free riding. To solve this problem each university should be …