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Keywords
Betting for grades; incentives; academic performance; piece rate mechanism; rank-order tournament;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2016-10-23 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2016-10-23 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2016-10-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2016-10-23 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-SOG-2016-10-23 (Sociology of Economics)
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