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Child Control in Education Decisions: An Evaluation of Targeted Incentives to Learn in India
- Journal of Human Resources
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Volume 50, Number 4, Fall 2015
- pp. 1051-1080
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ABSTRACT:
I report the results of a field experiment in Gurgaon, India that offered cash and noncash incentives to learn either to children or to their parents. While I find no evidence that the identity of the recipient or form of the reward mattered in the aggregate, noncash incentives targeted to children were more effective for initially low-performing children while cash incentives were more effective for high-performing children. To explore the mechanisms behind this result, I present a model of household education production and find additional empirical results consistent with the model.