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investigates the mechanisms affecting sleep choice and explores whether commitment devices and monetary incentives can be used to … incentives to sleep, and collected data from wearable activity trackers, surveys, and time-use diaries. Our results are … the monetary incentives by significantly increasing the likelihood of sleeping between 7 and 9 hours (+19%). We uncover …
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Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created …
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Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created …
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An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among students. We randomly assign around 10,000 middle school students in Karnataka, India, to alternative peer learning treatments in Math and English that vary the intensity of...
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In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
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interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both … to five-week post-treatment period. Comparisons to secondary treatments show that immediate incentives have larger … impacts on sleep than delayed incentives or reminders and feedback alone during the treatment period, but do not have …
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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 …
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