I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …

Today, it can be seen in the real world that many students are unemployed after graduating from college or university …. The purpose of this study was to examine the structural effect of achievement motivation and achievement on student … leadership and entrepreneurial spirit. This research was conducted in Indonesia, with a total sample of 789 students, through …

motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions …

. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking …