’ engagement with the academic aspect of school life. We carried out a large-scale preregistered randomized field experiment with a …-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 …

on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full …. Another (incentives) was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third … offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades or other …

incentives to high school seniors in an experimental demonstration program. As a theoretical matter, such incentives may be … pressure not to study. The experiment studied here used a school-based randomization design offering awards to all students in … outcomes in an effort to determine how students responded to incentives. These results show students took more tests and were …

-stakes assessments in a field experiment with 63 low-income high schools and over 10,000 students. We contribute to the literature on … education incentives by incentivising inputs rather than output, by focusing on high stakes outcomes, and by comparing financial … incentives, and identify a "right tail" of underperforming students who experience a significant impact on high stakes …

intrinsic motivation for students with low skills, while girls also respond less to rank-based incentives if tested with less …How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test … performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic …