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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …
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We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...
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it uses in-kind incentives conditional on achievement of a specific target for academic grades, behaviour and attendance …
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In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
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Indigenous students. In 2012, all Indigenous students enrolled in 21 high schools in Queensland were offered in-kind incentives …
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it uses in-kind incentives conditional on achievement of a specific target for academic grades, behaviour and attendance …
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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incentives to work are changed. We first apply games of status to grading exams. Our main conclusion is that if students care … are disparate, the optimal wage schedule creates different grades than we found with status incentives alone. The very top … status grades are optimal as we found with status incentives alone. A bonus is paid only to scores in the top status grade. …
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. Utilities depend on the ranking of all the scores. By clustering scores into grades, the ranking is coarsened, and the incen­tives …
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We show that if students care primarily about their status (relative rank) in class, they are best motivated to work not by revealing their exact numerical exam scores (100,99,...,1), but instead by clumping them in broad categories (A,B,C). If their abilities are disparate, the optimal grading...
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