Incentivizing Attendance and Performance at School: A Field Experiment

该项目旨在制定和评估一个以奖励为基础的方案，以提高土著学生的入学率和成绩，帮助减轻目前土著和非土著澳大利亚人之间的不平等。只有43%的土著澳大利亚人高中毕业，而非土著澳大利亚人的高中毕业率为78%。该研究计划调查高价值奖励（例如驾驶执照培训）是否能有效激励11和12年级的学生。它还旨在审查提供奖励的方式-传统上是事后提供，还是事先以基于信托的合同形式提供-是否提高了土著学生在以前的奖励计划失败的地方的高中毕业率。

This project aims to develop and evaluate an incentive-based program to increase the school attendance and performance of Indigenous students to help alleviate current inequalities between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Only 43 per cent of Indigenous Australians graduate from high school compared to 78 per cent for non-Indigenous Australians. The study plans to investigate whether high value rewards (e.g. driving licence instruction) are effective in incentivising year 11 and 12 students. It also aims to examine whether the way incentives are provided — ex-post as traditionally done or ex-ante in the form of a trust-based contract — increase high school completion rates of Indigenous students where previous incentive schemes have failed.