In a randomized field experiment, we give first-year students in higher education feedback
on their relative performance and show that the type of feedback matters, as feedback …

This paper studies whether individuals distort their beliefs about the relative importance of
effort and luck to motivate themselves to exert effort. To that end, I develop a novel …

Research over the past decades has documented the various individual and social returns
to tertiary education. In many countries, however, the realization of those returns is …