Grades as incentives

Empirical Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1563-1592

  Grant, Darren ^a   Green, William B ^a  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral incentives; Educational assessment; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; LEARNING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EID: 84877607540     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-012-0578-0     Document Type: Article

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