Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100897

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP150100897

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Incentivizing Attendance and Performance at School: A Field Experiment. 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 22-02-2016

End Date: 30-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $218,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods | Economics of Education | Experimental Economics | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Preference, Behaviour and Welfare | Micro Labour Market Issues

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Economics of Education | Experimental Economics | Micro Labour Market Issues | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare | Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods

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