Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/159806 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 968
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
This paper exploits discontinuities in the assigment of scholarships targeted at low income students in an Italian University in order to evaluate the effects of monetary incentives on students' academic achievement. Results reveal positive and sizeable causal effects both in terms of credits and grades. Gender differentials also emerge: male students drive the results on credits outcome while females students drive the effect on grades. These results suggest that the scholarship design contributes to reducing the probability of delayed graduation ("Fuori Corso" problem).
JEL: 
H5
I21
I28
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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