The importance of relative performance feedback information: Evidence from a natural experiment using high school students
The importance of relative performance feedback information: Evidence from a natural experiment using high school students
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.04.001
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发表时间：
2010-08-01
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Iriberri, Nagore
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作者：
Azmat, Ghazala;Iriberri, Nagore
我们研究了当个体根据其绝对绩效获得奖励时，提供相对绩效反馈信息对绩效的影响。在一所高中进行的一项自然实验提供了一个不同寻常的机会，可以在真正的努力环境中测试这种效果。在只有一年的时间里，学生们收到的信息可以让他们知道自己的表现是否高于(低于)班级平均水平，以及与班级平均水平的距离。我们利用一个丰富的面板数据集，发现这些信息的提供导致了学生成绩的5%的增长。此外，对整个分布的影响也是显著的。然而，一旦信息被删除，效果就消失了。为了排除这种影响可能是由学校内部的教师人为驱动的担忧，我们使用针对相同学生的国家级考试(外部评分)来验证我们的结果，这种影响仍然存在。(C)2010爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
We study the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on performance, when individuals are rewarded according to their absolute performance. A natural experiment that took place in a high school offers an unusual opportunity to test this effect in a real-effort setting. For one year only, students received information that allowed them to know whether they were performing above (below) the class average as well as the distance from this average. We exploit a rich panel dataset and find that the provision of this information led to an increase of 5% in students' grades. Moreover, the effect was significant for the whole distribution. However, once the information was removed, the effect disappeared. To rule out the concern that the effect may be artificially driven by teachers within the school, we verify our results using national level exams (externally graded) for the same students, and the effect remains. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.