This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to … deviation in exam grade. Effort in our study increases most for students at and below median ability, resulting in a reduction …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services … offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment …

This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by … using a randomized control experiment. This information was updated every six months during a three-year period. In the … absence of treatment, students' underestimate their position in the grade distribution. The treatment significantly improves …

experiments, using both students and managers as subjects. Communication is implemented by two different devices, a ‘standardized … triopoly. Moreover, managers behave in a similar way under the two communication devices, while students are more influenced by … quantities than students, and communication enhances the difference between the subject pools in duopoly but reduces this …

This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students' effort. We … collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students …