scholarly journals The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Levitt ◽  
John List ◽  
Susanne Neckermann ◽  
Sally Sadoff
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Educational Performance

scholarly journals The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven D. Levitt ◽  
John A. List ◽  
Susanne Neckermann ◽  
Sally Sadoff
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Educational Performance ◽  
Older Students ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Testing Environment ◽  
Power Of Incentives ◽  
Level Of Effort

We explore the power of behavioral economics to influence the level of effort exerted by students in a low stakes testing environment. We find a substantial impact on test scores from incentives when the rewards are delivered immediately. There is suggestive evidence that rewards framed as losses outperform those framed as gains. Nonfinancial incentives can be considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but are less effective with older students. All motivating power of incentives vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay. Our results suggest that the current set of incentives may lead to underinvestment. (JEL D03, H75, I21, I28)

Behavioral Economics and Social Policy: Designing Innovative Solutions for Programs Supported by the Administration for Children and Families

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lashawn Richburg-Hayes ◽  
Caitlin Anzelone ◽  
Nadine Dechausay ◽  
Saugato Datta ◽  
Alexandra Fiorillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Innovative Solutions

Behavioral economics: Principles, procedures, and utility for applied behavior analysis.

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica T. Francisco ◽  
Gregory J. Madden ◽  
John Borrero
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Behavior Analysis ◽  
Applied Behavior Analysis

Beyond Market: Institutions of Governance in the Complex World (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 2009 - Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom)

2010 ◽  
pp. 82-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya. Kuzminov ◽  
M. Yudkevich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Institutional Economic

The article surveys the main lines of research conducted by Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom - 2009 Nobel Prize winners in economics. Williamsons and Ostroms contribution to understanding the nature of institutions and choice over institutional options are discussed. The role their work played in evolution of modern institutional economic theory is analyzed in detail, as well as interconnections between Williamsons and Ostroms ideas and the most recent research developments in organization theory, behavioral economics and development studies.

A New Model of Man in Economics

2011 ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
M. Storchevoy
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Rational Behavior ◽  
New Model ◽  
Common Framework

The paper draws on the most recent research in the field of behavioral economics, neuroscience, and other disciplines and shows how biological and social factors interact and co-determine real human behavior. The author considers in detail various affects and forms of non-rational behavior. He proposes a common framework for such analysis, where each of those forms of behavior becomes the result of conscious or evolutionary-driven choice.

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