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I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students … more so when they performed poorly prior to the experiment. Next, we find that students in the raise treatment do not …
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crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …
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Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … laboratory experiment in which the choice of the job characteristics (i.e., the mission) is part of the compensation package that … and non-monetary incentives imperfect. These findings have implications for the design of incentives in mission …
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