Gender & High Frequency vs. Low Frequency tasks in a context of Joint-Liability Incentives

Bernatzky, Marianne; Cabrera, José María; Cid, Alejandro

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Bernatzky, Marianne
dc.contributor.author	Cabrera, José María
dc.contributor.author	Cid, Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned	2026-03-31T17:27:34Z
dc.date.available	2026-03-31T17:27:34Z
dc.date.issued	2014	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/2797
dc.format.mimetype	text/plain	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.title	Gender & High Frequency vs. Low Frequency tasks in a context of Joint-Liability Incentives	es
dc.type	Reporte técnico	es
dc.type.version	Aceptada	es
dc.description.abstractenglish	We study the impact of high and low frequency incentives in a joint-liability framework on six academic outcomes of undergraduate students using a randomized field experiment. As recently documented in health literature, incentives to exercise are effective in developing healthy habits. Therefore, we design groups of three students and provide a premium to the homework’s grade if all the members of the group (three) meet some requirements. We investigate how the frequency of these take home tests affect the students study habits and thus, the academic outcomes. We find that there are no differences in the student’s educational outcomes between the high and low frequency groups. We also explore if male and female students respond differently to a joint-liability incentives scheme. We find that this treatment improves the accumulated grade average of male students, but not for females. This finding is in line with previous research on joint-liability and gender behavior, but now we present it in a novel context. Finally, the paper outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with a field experiment in the classroom and provide some lessons to improve evaluation designs and to foster future randomized controlled trials in this area.	es
dc.subject.keyword	gender	es
dc.subject.keyword	field experiment	es
dc.subject.keyword	classroom incentives	es
dc.subject.keyword	evaluation	es
dc.subject.keyword	joint-liability incentives	es