Understanding the response to financial and non-financial incentives in education: Field experimental evidence using high-stakes assessments

被引：4

作者：

Burgess, Simon ^{[1
]}

Metcalfe, Robert ^{[2
]}

Sadoff, Sally ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bristol, 2C1,Priory Rd Complex,Priory Rd, Clifton BS8 1TU, England

[2] Univ Southern Calif, 3620 South Vermont Ave,Kaprielian KAP Hall 300, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA

[3] Univ Calif San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA

来源：

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW | 2021年 / 85卷

关键词：

Education; Effort; Incentives; High-stakes Assessments; Field experiment; DELAY-DISCOUNT RATES; POOR EVIDENCE; HETEROGENEITY; ACHIEVEMENT; OUTCOMES; IMPACTS; SCHOOLS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102195

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We analyze the impact on high-stakes assessments of incentivizing students' effort in a field experiment with over 10,000 high school students. We contribute to the literature by using our rich data and machine learning techniques to explore treatment heterogeneity; by comparing financial and non-financial rewards in rewarding effort rather than grades; and by using high-stakes outcomes. We find little average impact of incentives in the overall population, but we identify a "right tail" of highly responsive students: in the upper half of the responsiveness distribution, test scores improve by 0.1-0.2 SD, about half the attainment gap between poor and non-poor students.

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