expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …