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Countering moral hazard in higher education : the role of performance incentives in need-based grants
Montalbán, José - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024215
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
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Social incentives matter : evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2013
firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives … - that take the form of a donation received by a charity of the subject's choice - to financial incentives using an online … real effort experiment. We find that social incentives lead to a 20% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702224
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Money and status : how best to incentivize work
Dubey, Pradeep; Geanakoplos, John - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551501
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Games with money and status : how best to incentivize work
Dubey, Pradeep; Geanakoplos, John - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403254
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Do rewards work? : evidence from the randomization of public works
Carrillo, Paul E.; Castro, Edgar; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2017
This paper evaluates the effect of positive inducements on tax behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which a municipality of Argentina randomly selected 400 individuals among more than 72,000 taxpayers who had complied with payment of their property tax. These individuals were publicly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661307
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Can financial incentives help disadvantaged schools to attract and retain high-performing teachers? : evidence from Chile
Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; Hincapié, Isabel; … - 2019
program in the region that provides monetary incentives to talented teachers with an additional bonus if they work in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154871
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In-kind incentives and health worker performance : experimental evidence from El Salvador
Bernal, Pedro; Martinez, Sebastian - 2018
been tested, with mixed results. This study experimentally evaluates the effects of team in-kind incentives on health …-kind incentives linked to performance over a 12-month period. All 75 teams received monitoring, performance feedback and recognition … exhibit improvements in performance measures over time, the in-kind incentives generated significant improvements in community …
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Low demand for primary education : traditions or economic incentives?
Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 1998
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What you don't know... can't hurt you? : a field experiment on relative performance
Azmat, Ghazala; Bagues, Manuel F.; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2016
This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by … absence of treatment, students' underestimate their position in the grade distribution. The treatment significantly improves … the students' self-assessment. We find that treated students experience a significant decrease in their educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446146