Blissful ignorance? A natural experiment on the effect of feedback on students' performance

Labour Economics

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-25

  Bandiera, Oriana ^a   Larcinese, Valentino ^b   Rasul, Imran ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feedback; Incentives; Students' performance; University education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939935640     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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