Arbeitspapier
Incentives for Students: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments
Incentives are widely used to increase peoples effort and thus performance. Whileacademic achievement depends heavily on effort, there is little empirical evidence onhow students respond to incentives other than grades and monetary rewards. We drawon two natural experiments that occurred at a major European university and use thedifference-in-differences approach to show how program and course policies affect theeffort and performance of students. Our findings indicate that students perform worse(i) if their effort is rewarded belatedly, (ii) if their effort has little impact on their finalgrade, or (iii) if they may resit exams more often and thus less effort is required from them.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 133
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Education: Government Policy
- Thema
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Performance
incentives
higher education
natural experiment
differencein- differences approach
Studierende
Ökonomischer Anreiz
Arbeitsleistung
Bildungsniveau
Feldforschung
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Beltz, Philipp
Link, Susanne
Ostermaier, Andreas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Beltz, Philipp
- Link, Susanne
- Ostermaier, Andreas
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Entstanden
- 2012