Future on the educational performance of students in the province of San Luis in Argentina. Specifically it comes to … measuring the impact of the program on the education gap, repetition and dropping out of school. Using difference …

This paper examines how grade incentives affect student learning across a variety of courses at two universities, using … previously tested in the economics literature generally. All are rejected in our data. Either grade incentives do not influence …

Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports …. Another (incentives) was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third … treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for women than for men and for students …

This paper exploits a 2018 reform of teachers' financial incentives to work in some French disadvantaged schools. Based … on this quasi-natural experiment, it evaluates the impact of those incentives on teachers' stated preferences to move to …

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the … find, however, some evidence of heterogenous treatment effects. In particular, students with high math skills and students … groups. While reported study time for these groups is not affected by treatment status, these students claim that they have …

(higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. The data were … functions. -- higher education ; education inputs ; lecture attendance ; hours of study ; future-orientation ; attitude to risk …

significant effects on college enrollment or drop-out rates for most subjects. -- higher education ; college enrollment drop …

Education researchers have long made inferences about grade retention from the grade distribution of same-aged students …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage … expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing … healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who …