Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn - Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 909-944

  Bishop, John ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

academic achievement; academic climate; educational standards; high school exit exams; homework; human capital theory; K 12 education; nerd harassment; payoffs to academic achievement; peer culture; peer effects; peer learning externalities; PISA (Program for International Student Assessment); secondary education; signaling achievement; student accountability; student engagement; student motivation; student norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649311799     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)02015-0     Document Type: Review

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