students’ perceived impact of teaching evaluations, (2) communicate a descriptive norm of high participation, and (3) use the … commitment-consistency principle by asking students to commit to participation. We find that none of the nudges were effective … evidence that the effectiveness of both the impact and commitment treatments differed across students. The impact treatment had …

availability of strong review pieces in the topic, there is no pedagogical paper on randomized evaluation. This paper bridges the … implement and provide students an opportunity to participate in a simple randomized trial of their own …

students in two ways. The “payoff” in the game involves the possibility of students earning a small number of extra points …. Also, we find that presenting experimental results to students enhances their interest in the material. For example, we … find evidence that female students are less likely to “defect” than are male students, and that international students are …

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 …

There is much debate as to why economics students display more self-interested behavior than other students: whether … homo economicus self-select into economics or students are instead “indoctrinated” by economics learning, and whether these … questions we show that, compared to students in other majors, econ students report being: (i) more self-interested (in …

attention and engagement of college students. By observing the behavior of a large population of participants in an identical … on such lecture participation drives this result. Interestingly, among those students who actually execute a given task …