This paper analyzes optimal grading in a world that focuses on top grades. Students choose an effort level, their … coarseness of the grading scale to maximize student welfare. When choosing their effort, students overweight outstanding - or … coarse grading can be used to counterbalance incentives. Thus, salience can help explain why grading ranges from Pass …

ineffizient hohen Lerneinsatz und in der Folge zu Frust und Krankheit führen, wenn Studierende bei ihrer Entscheidung, wie viel … Lernaufwand zu leisten ist, einer weit verbreiteten Wahrnehmungsverzerrung, entsprechend der Theorie der auffälligen Auszahlungen …

ineffizient hohen Lerneinsatz und in der Folge zu Frust und Krankheit führen, wenn Studierende bei ihrer Entscheidung, wie viel … Lernaufwand zu leisten ist, einer weit verbreiteten Wahrnehmungsverzerrung, entsprechend der Theorie der auffälligen Auszahlungen …

This paper analyzes optimal grading in a world that focuses on top grades. Students choose an effort level, their … coarseness of the grading scale to maximize student welfare. When choosing their effort, students overweight outstanding { or … coarse grading can be used to counterbalance incentives. Thus, salience can help explain why grading ranges from Pass …

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 …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student …

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 …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student …

college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of …

information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 …

intervention, gaps in college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 30 to 50 percent. …

We use rich microeconomic data on performance and choices of students at college entry to study the interaction between … which preferences and expectations of students are identified from data on choices and multiple exam grades. Counterfactuals … timing of choices and exams are shown to increase welfare. Redistribution among students or schools is sizeable in all …