-efficacy, motivation, and test anxiety, obtained from an online survey before students’ exams. In the whole sample, we did not find an … treated students reported higher self-efficacy than the control students. The treatment affected students’ motivation before …Motivated by the self-determination theory of psychology, we ask how simple school practices can forge students …

that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students' math, reading …

, predetermined non-monetary incentives crowd out intrinsic motivation for pupils in High Schools. In contrast, the endogenous choice …This paper presents the result of a field experiment on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on pupils … and (iii) a delegation of choice over incentives. The effect of non-monetary incentives depends on pupils' socio …

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 … deviation in exam grade. Effort in our study increases most for students at and below median ability, resulting in a reduction …

that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students' math, reading …

that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students' math, reading …

that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students’ math, reading …

that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation. …