Monetary incentives and student achievement in a depressed labor market. Results from a randomized experiment.

Autor/inn/en	De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo; Nisticó, Rosanna
Titel	Monetary incentives and student achievement in a depressed labor market. Results from a randomized experiment.
Quelle	In: Journal of human capital, 6 (2012) 1, S. 56-85 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1932-8575; 1932-8664
DOI	10.1086/664795
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Leistungssteigerung; Bildung; Bildungspolitik; Investition; Italien; Student; Studienerfolg; Betriebswirtschaftslehre; Bildungspolitik; Anreizsystem; Leistungsmotivation; Leistungssteigerung; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsertrag; Leistungsmotivation; Strukturschwacher Raum; Anreizsystem; Investition; Studienerfolg; Betriebswirtschaftslehre; Leistungsanreiz; Student; Italien; Süditalien
Abstract	"We evaluate the effectiveness of monetary incentives in enhancing student performance using a randomized experiment involving undergraduate students enrolled at a southern Italian University. Students were assigned to three different groups: a high-reward group, a low-reward group, and a control group. Rewards were given to the 30 best-performing students in each group. Financial rewards increase student performance. High-ability students react strongly whereas the effect is null for low-ability students. Large and small rewards produce very similar effects. These effects also persist in subsequent years, when the financial incentives are no longer in place. No types of crowding-out effects of the monetary incentives are found." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Forschungsmethode: Experiment; empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2009 bis 2009.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/3