In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on
large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

First we discuss how extrinsic incentives may come into conflict with other motivations. For
example, monetary incentives from principals may change how tasks are perceived by …

I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science
Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

This article describes a series of school-based field experiments in over 200 urban schools
across three cities designed to better understand the impact of financial incentives on …

Research in mathematics education is interdisciplinary. According to Higginson (1980),
mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology are contributing disciplines to …

As global policy makers and school leaders look for ways to improve student performance,
financial incentives programs for teachers have become increasingly popular. This article …

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 …

We study how people change their behavior after being made aware of bias. Teachers in
Italian schools give lower grades to immigrant students relative to natives of comparable …