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 …

incentives for the universities to improve performance, but these funding schemes have largely failed in many other countries … university and the Ministry. The scheme increases the incentives for universities to improve the processes and structures in … universities that was adopted at the beginning of 2013. The political decision-makers expect that the funding scheme will create …

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 …