Economists study how incentives motivate human behavior. However, besides grades, professors do not frequently employ incentives to motivate students in the classroom. Possibly because expenses associated with classroom incentives often remain unreimbursed or because other implementation costs...

Information provided at the moment a person makes a decision can influence behavior in predictable ways. The United Kingdom's Behavioural Insights Team have used this idea to help improve the insulation of lofts, collect taxes, and even reduce litter. The authors of this article developed...

This study aims at to find out whether parental involvement affects student academic scores and whether or not children’s self-efficacy mediates between parental involvement and students’ scores. The candidate explanatory variable Parental involvement (PI) is found statistically...