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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …
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This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing all first year requirements before the start of their second academic year. Participants were assigned to a high...
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We explore the role of self- and peer evaluations in education, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We construct a model of (self-)deception to predict outcomes for scenarios with and without self-evaluation. By using unique data from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK...
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non-financial incentives and test their effect on effort and performance of students. Our identification strategy exploits … cross-cohort experimental variation in assessment rules and within course variation in incentives to determine their impact … on the performance in exams. We find these incentives to result in an increase in grades of 2.4 marks or about 4%. The …
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