Author: Shannon White
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The Cost-effectiveness of Texting to Nudge Students Towards College Matriculation
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A $7-per-student text messaging intervention during the summer following high school graduation significantly increased college enrollment rates in the fall, underscoring the returns to behavioral interventions.
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Buckling Down By Lightening Up: How Humor Can Boost Students’ Persistence
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In a randomized experiment, students who watched a funny video persisted with a mentally taxing task twice as long as other students.
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Live Fast, Die Young, Defend Your Status: The Code of Retaliation
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A harsh childhood can lead to a life strategy that condones violence in response to status threats. An economic game shows that such a worldview is linked to heightened envy in unfair situations.
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Beyond the Classroom: How outreach and structure can improve college outcomes
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New research shows that cost-effective summer counseling interventions that help students through the enrollment process significantly boosted college enrollment and persistence rates.
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Nudging Disadvantaged Students Towards Improved College Application Decisions
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The college application process is riddled with uncertainty, and students in disadvantaged areas in particular may not have access to quality counseling or other resources to guide them. A recent study shows how a cheap policy change dramatically impacted the college decisions of disadvantaged students—and likely, their incomes.
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Bidding for Fool’s Gold? The Uncertain Benefits of Hosting the World Cup
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A recent paper underscores the difficulty of studying the World Cup and does not draw firm conclusions, but finds suggestive evidence that hosting the World Cup could have a negative impact on exports.