Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

By Josh Angrist, Daniel W. Lang, Philip Oreopoulos. 2007

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Testing exclusion restrictions and additive separability in sample selection models (2014, result): “As a second example, several studies in development and educational economics assess the impact of school vouchers or other incentives on test scores in high school and college, see for instance Angrist et al. (2006, 2009).”
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance. NBER Working Paper No. 18165. (2012, unknown): “36Evidence on the effect of incentives by gender is mixed with longer term studies tending to find larger effects on girls (e.g. Angrist et al. 2009, Angrist and Lavy 2007) and shorter term studies finding larger effects among boys, particularly in the context of competition (Gneezy and Rustichini…”
Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy (2008, background): “…1983), stop taking addictive drugs such as heroin, cocaine and cigarettes (e.g., Higgins et al., 2000; Heil et al., 2003), and get better grades (Angrist et al., 2006) all assume these behavioral changes are desirable for people who would not spontaneously enact them if left to their own…”
Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice (2016, unknown): “In view of evidence that many educational interventions do not work well for males, this ﬁnding seems noteworthy ð see, e.g., Anderson 2008; Angrist, Lang, and Oreopoulos 2009; Legewie and DiPrete 2012; Deming et al. 2014 Þ .”
Help or Hindrance? The Effects of College Remediation on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes (2010, background): “Notably, the results for men and women do not differ significantly, which is in contrast to what has been found in some studies of college-level interventions (Angrist et al., 2009).”
The Experimental Approach to Development Economics (2009, result): “This is a difference with the evaluation literature in the US or Canada where, with a few important exceptions (e.g. Angrist, Lang and Oreopoulos, forthcoming) the programs to be evaluated are mainly chosen by the implementing agencies, and the researchers are evaluators.”
The Effects of Student Coaching (2014, background): “In addition, Angrist et al. (2009) found that students who had access to incentives and counseling had higher academic performance in college.”