The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards
Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23329645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua D Angrist (0000-0001-6992-8956, RAND Corporation, corresponding author), Joshua Angrist (Department of Economics, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Memorial Drive, Building E52, Room 353, Cambridge, MA 02142-1347, and NBER.), Victor Lavy (0000-0001-8657-9700, Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel, NBER, and Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London.) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1384-1414 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8282 • E-ISSN: 1944-7981 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/aer.99.4.1384 |
| OpenAlex | W2139904510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 69 |
| References cited | 39 |
The Israeli matriculation certificate is a prerequisite for most postsecondary schooling. In a randomized trial, we attempted to increase certification rates among low-achievers with cash incentives. The experiment used a school-based randomization design offering awards to all who passed their exams in treated schools. This led to a substantial increase in certification rates for girls but had no effect on boys. Affected girls had a relatively high ex ante chance of certification. The increase in girls' matriculation rates translated into an increased likelihood of college attendance. Female matriculation rates increased partly because treated girls devoted extra time to exam preparation. (JEL I21, I28, J16)
Attendance · Certificate · Certification · Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Management · Mathematics education · Matriculation · Randomized controlled trial · Randomized experiment · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Mathematics · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability
The Schooling Decision
Every Breath You Take—Every Dollar You’ll Make
Does Immigration Affect the Long‐Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi‐Experimental Evidence
A Practitioner’s Guide to Cluster-Robust Inference
The Good, the Bad, and the Average
Improving Education in Developing Countries
Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School
Changing climates of conflict
Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values
Financial Incentives and Student Achievement
Economic Incentives and Social Preferences
Countering Moral Hazard in Higher Education
Learning, Words and Actions
Learning, Words and Actions
Obesity And Cash Rewards
What Drives Failure to Maximize Payoffs in the Lab? A Test of the Inequality Aversion Hypothesis
The long-run human capital benefits of the one-village-one-preschool pilot in rural northwestern China
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes
Does the Heterogeneity of Project Implementers Affect the Programme Participation of Beneficiaries
Student Motivation and Associated Outcomes
Revisiting the analysis of matched‐pair and stratified experiments in the presence of attrition
Does Remedial Education in Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes, and Intergenerational Mobility
Raising Aspirations and Higher Education
Math scores in high stakes grades
Home broadband and human capital formation
Using high-stakes grades to incentivize learning
Teaching and incentives
The effects of classroom incentives
Acing the test
Do Student-Level Incentives Increase Student Achievement? A Review of the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Test Performance
Are threshold-based financial incentive schemes more effective than proportional ones for driving behavior change
Segregation and the attainment gap for permanently disadvantaged pupils in England
Membership Has Its Privileges
Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege
Payments for Ecosystem Services as Incentives for Collective Action
Mental health and dropout behavior
Dropping out
Accessing higher education in developing countries
Giving kids a head start
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations
Gender composition, social context, and academic performance in high-stakes examinations
Can provision of free school uniforms harm attendance? Evidence from Ecuador
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation
Can Social–Emotional Learning Reduce School Dropout in Developing Countries
Are morally good actions ever free
Do Solar Lamps Help Children Study? Contrary Evidence from a Pilot Study in Uganda
School Dropouts and Conditional Cash Transfers
Entertainment-Education for Better Health
Reform Imperatives for Israel’s Future
Paying students to learn
The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
Small-Sample Methods for Cluster-Robust Variance Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in Fixed Effects Models
Bootstrap Inference for Quantile Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments with Matched Pairs
Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments
Permutation Inference with a Finite Number of Heterogeneous Clusters
Using Goals to Motivate College Students
Paying to Learn
La question des redoublements
Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive
Do Students Benefit from Attending Better Schools? Evidence from Rule‐based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students’ Outcomes in England
Learning About Opportunity
The Social Origins of Effort
The Han-Minority Achievement Gap, Language, and Returns to Schools in Rural China
Taxation and Political Mobilization
When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions
Self-discipline gives girls the edge
Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia
Random group effects and the precision of regression estimates
Why Youths Drop out of High School
Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School
Some heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimators with improved finite sample properties
Financial Incentives and Student Achievement
Cluster-Sample Methods in Applied Econometrics
Long-Term Educational Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers
Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models
Multiple Inference and Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
When to Control for Covariates? Panel Asymptotics for Estimates of Treatment Effects
Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data
College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree
Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School
Paying to Learn
Gender Differences in Delay of Gratification
Can provision of free school uniforms harm attendance? Evidence from Ecuador
School subsidies for the poor
Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive
Do Students Benefit from Attending Better Schools? Evidence from Rule‐based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace
The Promise of Public Sector-Sponsored Training Programs
The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures
| Unique citing works | 69 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |