The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student …

Motivated by the self-determination theory of psychology, we ask how simple school practices can forge students … crossover design, involving all the students of the University of Szeged in Hungary. Our intervention consisted of an automated … encouragement message that praised students’ past achievements and signaled trust in their success. The treated students received …

information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 …

college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of …

We investigate how college students form and update their beliefs about future earnings using a unique "information …" experiment. We provide college students true information about the population distribution of earnings and observe how this … information causes respondents to update their beliefs about their own future earnings. We show that college students are …

, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …

, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …

, obtained by providing students with information on the true population distribution of various major-specific characteristics …. Students logically revise their beliefs in response to the information, and their subjective beliefs about future major choice …

problem set effects for. Graded problem sets raised the average students' exam performance enough to increase their course GPA … by one-third of a letter grade. Hardworking, scholastically below-average students' receive additional academic …