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Direct linkChen, Qihui; Okediji, Tade O. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
In this article, the authors illustrate how incentives can improve student performance in introductory economics courses. They implemented a policy experiment in a large introductory economics class in which they reminded students who scored below an announced cutoff score on the midterm exam about the risk of failing the course. The authors…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Introductory Courses, Incentives, Academic Achievement
