This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in …

Domestic attempts to use financial incentives for teachers to increase student achievement have been ineffective. In …

, we find substantial incentive effects from both financial and non-financial incentives on test scores. Second, we find … that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … motivating power of the incentives vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay. Since the rewards to educational investment …