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Sharma, Dhiraj – Online Submission, 2010
We present evidence on the impact of piece rate financial incentives on students' school outcomes from a randomized field experiment in Nepal. Despite several experimental and institutional factors making it less likely of finding a positive treatment effect, I find that incentives increase average aggregate scores by 0.09 standard deviations.…
Descriptors: Incentives, Academic Achievement, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
Reiss, Patricia, P.; Zhang, Shuqiang – Online Submission, 2006
Girls consistently out perform boys in mathematics in Hawai'i. Starting from the premise that literacy is a prerequisite for mathematics learning, a causal model was proposed to account for gender differences in mathematics on multiple choice (MC) and constructed response (CR) items in conjunction with the effects of reading and writing. Two…
Descriptors: Females, Males, Mathematics Education, Causal Models