When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards. NBER Working Paper No. 16643

Autor/inn/en	Angrist, Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip; Williams, Tyler
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards. NBER Working Paper No. 16643
Quelle	(2010) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Students; Awards; Grade Point Average; Higher Education; Academic Achievement; Foreign Countries; Incentives; Campuses; Commuter Colleges; Intervention; Grades (Scholastic); Coaching (Performance); Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Award; Auszeichnung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulleistung; Ausland; Anreiz; Notenspiegel; Kanada
Abstract	We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian commuter campus. The award scheme offered linear cash incentives for course grades above 70. Awards were paid every term. Program participants also had access to peer advising by upperclassmen. Program engagement appears to have been high but overall treatment effects were small. The intervention increased the number of courses graded above 70 and points earned above 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a subsample that correctly described the program rules. We argue that these results fit in with an emerging picture of mostly modest effects for cash award programs of this type at the post-secondary level. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10