While instructional time is viewed as crucial to learning, little is known about the
effectiveness of reducing absences relative to increasing the number of school days. Using …

Behavioral economics attempts to integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience, and
sociology in order to better predict individual outcomes and develop more effective policy …

This survey summarizes the main research findings about teaching economics to
undergraduates. After briefly reviewing the history of research on undergraduate economic …

Will college students who set goals work harder and perform better? We report two field
experiments that involved four thousand college students. One experiment asked treated …

Does attendance matter? This question has still not been answered conclusively. In general,
studies find positive but mostly weak correlations between attendance and performance …

Using a randomized experiment in a public Swiss university, we study the impact of online
live streaming of lectures on student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) attending …

We analyse a rich dataset of Economics students at a UK university to identify causal effects
of class absence on student performance, exploiting the random assignment of students and …

Selecting the right methodology to use for detecting cheating in online exams requires
considerable time and effort due to a wide variety of scholarly publications on academic …

In this paper we investigate the effect of lecture attendance and self-study on undergraduate
students' academic performance. We first introduce a simple theoretical model in which …

We provide first evidence that a soft commitment device enhances progress in education
and, more generally, improves the completion of complex tasks—such as passing exams. In …