Incentives are widely used to increase people's effort and thus performance. Whileacademic achievement depends heavily … on effort, there is little empirical evidence onhow students respond to incentives other than grades and monetary rewards …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to … engage in online tests. Our identification strategy exploits i) weekly variation in incentives to determine their impact on …

We evaluate the impact of joint-liability incentives in the classroom using a randomized field experiment. The … individual incentives treatment. We find that joint-liability incentives impact positively on the grades attained in homework and … positive effect seems to disappear in final exams, the overall impact of joint-liability incentives on the academic …