considered experiment. This negative trend was interpreted as a learning effect, in accordance with the stochastic version of the …

durables. Who opts into the transaction when given such incentives? We show theoretically and experimentally that increasing …

. We conduct a behavioral experiment that confirms these predictions, both for experimental variation in the costs of …

success. Based on data from a natural experiment, we estimate the gains in student cognitive achievement in an introductory …

identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e., the incentives stemming from an inherent preference for high rank …). We find that rank incentives not only boost performance in the related assignment, but also increase the average grade …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …

identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e., the incentives stemming from an inherent preference for high rank …). We find that rank incentives not only boost performance in the related assignment, but also increase the average grade …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …