dissabte, 5 de març del 2011

Incentius i experiments en educació

(via Feakonomics: "A Very Long-Term Experiment in Educational Incentives")

El professor John List de la Universitat de Chicago ha rebut una donació de 10$ milions del Kenneth Griffin (fundador del hedge fund Citadel) per fer un experiment a l'entorn de l'educació amb 600 estudiants:

(...) will “monitor the students through annual tests, attendance records and graduation rates. As the students move into adulthood, their employment, pay and criminal records, if any, will also be tracked. While early results from the experiment may be published as soon as this year, the project has money to follow the students ‘until they die,’ List says.” List plans to experiment with using incentives to motivate both students and parents; he successfully used incentives (a trip to Disney World) to potty-train his daughter. “Incentives are the pillar of economics and represent everything I’m about,” says List. “If you understand the incentives people are operating under, you have a good first guess about what they’re going to be doing in certain circumstances and how changes in the environment and/or in their institutions will influence their behavior.”

Doble lliçó: fer experiments a llarg termini a l'entorn de l'educació i la filantropia dels rics americans.

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