Can incentives for parents and students change educational inputs? Experimental evidence from summer school
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Incentives; Randomized control trials; Out of school time; Summer school; Student attendance; Parent incentives;All these keywords.
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- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
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