The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

By Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, S. Sadoff. 2016

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Subfields: Education

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1. John A. List
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Citations in the corpus

• Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself (2017, background): “…from the rich literature that offers financial incentives to encourage preparation for exams and other learning activities (e.g., Fryer 2011; Levitt, List, and Sadoff 2016; Barrow and Rouse 2018, provide a review). as how the test is framed can increase effort and improve performance…”
• Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments (2017, unknown): “…that persists after the incentive is removed.1,2 Across domains ranging from charitable giving (Meier, 2007 and Landry et al., 2010), education (Levitt et al., 2016), exercise (Charness and Gneezy, 2009; Milkman et al., 2014; Royer et al., 2015; and Acland and Levy, 2015), smoking cessation…”